Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Jae Bates
Jae Bates is a Korean American trans man who grew up near Hopkins, Minnesota. In this oral history, Bates details childhood experiences of gender and race, including narratives of bullying, transphobia, and racism; his identity as a South Korean transracial adoptee and the imperialist histories of international adoption systems; coming out to family; challenges navigating healthcare systems; college campus organizing; and interning for OutFront Minnesota, working with trans youth. Bates concludes the interview with his thoughts on assimilation and the future of trans liberation. At the time of this interview he was a junior at the University of Puget Sound, Washington.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- q811kj80p
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Bates, Jae
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Jun. 28, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Korean War
OutFront Minnesota
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Vietnam War
- Places
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Washington
South Korea
Minnesota > Hennepin > City of Minnetonka > Hopkins
- Topic(s)
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Acceptance
Activism
Adoption
Asian American LGBTQ+ people
Asian American transgender people
Assigned gender
Bullying
Coming out
Depression
Diabetes
Discrimination
Education
Family relationships
Gay men
Gender diversity
Gender realignment surgery
Health
Health insurance
HIV/AIDS
Hormone therapy
Masculinities
Mastectomy
Medical care
Middle West
Partners of transgender people
Race
Racism
Sexuality
Social movements
Sports
Transgender people
Transphobia
Verbal abuse
Youth
- 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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