Interview, February 12, 2024

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Adkins, Deanna W.

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This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Deanna Adkins on February 12, 2024 by Caroline Overton as part of the Bass Connections Agents of Change Oral History Project.

Duration: 01:24:58 (stereo)

Duration: 01:24:51 (mono)

During the interview, Adkins discusses her childhood and family, her educational background, her interest in preventative healthcare, why she chose to become a doctor, her pathway into endocrinology, how she became involved in gender-affirming care, the 2015 founding of the Duke Child and Adolescent Gender Care Clinic, her interdisciplinary approach to gender-affirming care, her legal advocacy work, the effect of North Carolina House Bill 808, support from Duke, and her advocacy to ensure the Duke Hospital system is welcoming to LGBTQ+ patients. The themes of this interview include medical care for LGBTQ+, trans rights, and the relationship between medicine and advocacy.

Digital files include interview metadata and transcript (DOCX), interview with stereo (WAV), interview with mono (MP3), consent form (PDF), an image (JPG), and TXT files.

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Material in this series was processed using AXAEM's Electronic Records Processing module, which incorporates Bagger as a way to package electronic files with technical metadata. Captured digital content was ingested into AXAEM, where ClamAV Anti-Virus software detected and cleaned any computer viruses. The cleaned files were saved on the Duke University Medical Center Archives' secure server with a regular backup schedule. Includes 9 files totaling 975 MB that are available for research: Accession A2024.057 (9 files totaling 975 MB).

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