Oral History Interview with Gretchen Fincke, May 17, 2011

Gretchen Fincke is a certified sex therapist who worked as a psychotherapist for 37 years before retiring in 2008. Fincke opened an agency in 1980 which is now Pathways Counseling Center. Fincke discusses the problems with medical model programs that many individuals went through to be diagnosed as a "true transsexual." She discusses the process of being admitted to the program at the agency and its operation. She also describes tension between the gay and lesbian community and the transgender community in the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, and discusses the impact of the Internet in lessening the isolation of transgender people.

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Identifier: 4q77fr444
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Creator(s): Smith, Brice
Fincke, Gretchen
Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Date Created: May 17, 2011
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Pathways Counseling Center
Places: Wisconsin > Milwaukee County > City of Milwaukee > Milwaukee
Topic(s): Internet
Oral history
Psychotherapy
Sex therapy
Transgender community
Transgenderism
Resource Type: Audio
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Language: English
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