His article "Bureaucratizing Medicine: Creating a Gender Identity Clinic in the Welfare State” analyses the events leading to the creation of a gender identity clinic at Rikshospitalet in Norway in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The major argument of this essay is that issues of expertise on trans medicine did not arise because of developments within medicine, such as the emergence of new knowledge or the development of new technologies. On the contrary, the creation of a specialized gender identity clinic in the welfare state was the result of changing institutional, societal, and bureaucratic circumstances.
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