Editing Gender identity (section)

===Early medical literature===
In late-19th-century medical literature, women who chose not to conform to their expected gender roles were called "inverts", and they were portrayed as having an interest in knowledge and learning, and a "dislike and sometimes incapacity for needlework".<ref name="Padawer">{{cite news |last1=Padawer |first1=Ruth |title=What's So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/magazine/whats-so-bad-about-a-boy-who-wants-to-wear-a-dress.html |work=The New York Times |date=8 August 2012 |access-date=27 February 2017 |archive-date=25 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025213240/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/magazine/whats-so-bad-about-a-boy-who-wants-to-wear-a-dress.html |url-status=live }}</ref> During the mid-1900s, doctors pushed for corrective therapy on such women and children, which meant that gender behaviors that were not part of the norm would be punished and changed.<ref name="Khan2016">{{cite web |last1=Khan |first1=Farah Naz |title=A History of Transgender Health Care |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-history-of-transgender-health-care/ |work=[[Scientific American]] |date=16 November 2016 |access-date=16 December 2023 |archive-date=8 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208003936/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-history-of-transgender-health-care/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Standards of Care">{{cite journal |title=Liberating sex, knowing desire: ''scientia sexualis'' and epistemic turning points in the history of sexuality |last=Chiang |first=Howard H. |journal=[[History of the Human Sciences]] |volume=25 |issue=5| pages=42–69 |doi=10.1177/0952695110378947 |date=18 November 2010|pmid=21322413 |s2cid=26766140 }}</ref> The aim of this therapy was to push children back to their "correct" gender roles and thereby limit the number of children who became transgender.<ref name="Padawer" />