By the '40s and '50s, medical researchers were starting to study trans medicine, but they were aided by their trans patients, like Louise Lawrence, a trans woman who had corresponded extensively with people who had been arrested for public cross-dressing.
40년대와 50년대에 연구자들이 트랜스젠더 의학을 연구하기 시작했는데 그들은 루이스 로렌스같은 트랜스젠더 환자들로부터 많은 도움을 받았죠. 그는 공공장소에서 복장 도착으로 수감된 사람들과 광범위하게 교류했죠.