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   Jeanne Hoff, Pioneering Transgender Psychiatrist, Dies at 85   
   By Penelope Green, Dec. 18, 2023, NY Times   
   Dr. Hoff was born on Oct. 16, 1938, in St. Louis, the only child of James and   
   Mary (Salih) Hoff. Her father was a laborer and, by the 1950s, was working as   
   a bottler in a brewery. Dr. Hoff didn’t speak very much about her   
   upbringing, though she hinted    
   that it was marked by privation and disapproval, said Ms. Lucas, a friend   
   since the 1980s. Her father, she told Ms. Lucas, was an alcoholic.   
      
   “I got the sense that she raised herself,” Ms. Lucas said. “She was so   
   smart, they didn’t know what to do with her.”   
      
   Dr. Hoff earned a half scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis, from   
   which she received a B.A. in 1960. She then earned a master’s in science   
   from Yale, followed by an M.D. in surgery from the College of Physicians and   
   Surgeons at Columbia in    
   1963. She returned to Washington University from 1971 through 1976, first as   
   an instructor in pathology and then as a resident in psychiatry.   
      
   In the 80s, Dr. Hoff sold her practice and moved to Hudson, in upstate New   
   York. She worked for an outpatient clinic for the state in nearby Kingston,   
   treating severely disabled, long-term psychiatric patients, including   
   schizophrenics. After half a    
   decade or so, she moved to a group practice in Pittsburgh and ended up working   
   in Oakland, Calif., treating the formerly incarcerated through a program with   
   the California Department of Corrections. Her last job was at San Quentin,   
   where she treated    
   prisoners on death row. She retired in 1999, after a prisoner attacked her.   
      
   “She did not recover well from that trauma,” Ms. Lucas said. “She said   
   she couldn’t get mad, which would allow her to heal, because he was a   
   patient. She would joke about it, ‘I thought it was going to happen today,   
   but it only lasted a few    
   seconds.’ She was enormously compassionate.”   
      
   No immediate family members survive.   
      
   At the conclusion of “Becoming Jeanne,” Mr. Field asked Dr. Hoff how she   
   would like to be treated. “What can we do, to accept you?”   
      
   She did not hesitate in her answer: “It may not be necessary for you to go   
   to a lot of trouble to learn about accepting transsexuals if you have a   
   general principle and that is, ‘Mind your own business,’ I suppose. It   
   boils down to that.”   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/jeanne-hoff-dead.html   
      
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