Adrian Kane-Galbraith (they/them)

My research focuses on the social, cultural and political history of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations during the twentieth century. In my dissertation, provisionally titled "Public Bodies: 'Sex Change' and the State in Postwar Britain," I examine the entangled bureaucratic and medical practices that were involved in gender transition between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, and consider how the circulation of people, narratives, and ideas between the UK and other states in the Empire and Commonwealth--particularly India and Singapore--helped shape public assumptions about "biological sex".