'Gender Reassignment' and the Island of Doctor Money

Parallels to the vivisection debate

Thomas Eakins, The Agnew Clinic, 1889.

These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. To that, to the study of the plasticity of living forms, my life has been devoted. I have studied for years, gaining in knowledge as I go. I see you look horrified, and yet I am telling you nothing new. It all lay in the surface of practic…