Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Melissa Harl
Melissa Harl is a white female with transgender experience and history who grew up in Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Harl was working as a Professor at the University of Minnesota. In this oral history Harl talks about her childhood, bullying, and coming out in her late fifties. She also talk about her relationship with her late wife, and what it means to her to be a parent. Harl also touches upon her medical transition, medical discrimination, her experience with Christianity, and her work with 20% Theatre Company.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- gm80hv522
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Harl, Melissa
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Jan. 30, 2017
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Christine Jorgensen
Gender Odyssey
Kate Bornstein
Macalester College
Smiley's Family Clinic
Stonewall 25
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
- Places
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Minnesota
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Hennepin County
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City of Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
- Topic(s)
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Boy Scouts
Change of name
Clothing
Coming out
Conformity
Discrimination
Educators
Femininities
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Hormone therapy
Hormones
Marriage
Music
Sexuality
Socialisation
Transgender people
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
- Rights
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In copyright
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