NWLGHMP Oral History Project: Interview with Marsha Botzer Transcript

A transcript of an interview with Marsha Botzer for the Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project. Marsha Botzer was born in 1947 in Seattle, Washington and talks about growing up in the 1950s/60s and the feelings and realizations that led to who she is. She explains how it was difficult to detangle gender and orientation and recounts the many therapists and doctors that weren't of help. How she discovered the Seattle Counseling Service and what lead her to found the Ingersoll Gender Center and help others trans people. She included what life was like as a transsexual person at the time and the events going on that influenced it. This item comes from the Seattle Counseling Service Records at the University of Washington.

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Identifier: qn59q441g
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: University of Washington Libraries
Creator(s): Pettis, Ruth
Contributor(s): Botzer, Marsha
Frothingham, Lynn
Date Created: Sep. 24, 1998 to Oct. 16, 1998
Genre: Transcriptions
Subject(s): Ingersoll Gender Center
Marsha Botzer
Sandra Fosshage
Seattle Counseling Service
Places: Washington > King County > City of Seattle > Seattle
Topic(s): Counselors
Gender identity
Trans women
Transgender community centers
Transgender people
Transsexual people
Resource Type: Text
Digital Format: Redacted
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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