Historical Contents in a Movement

After watching "Crip Camp", it has me thinking about a lot of historical content or context that is often thrown away or covered up in a social movement. Or, ones that aren't even taught within school curriculums at all. When watching "Crip Camp", I didn't know how much I didn't know about the disability movement. There was so much more historical importance to this movement than I realized, and even was frankly aware of. One example is the fact that Camp Jened was a real camp at all, that there were places where disabled children, teens and adults could go to feel society's pressures ease up on them. My one and only experience with the history of disabled people has always been institutions, and maybe that's why the media covering (or, lack of a better term, never referencing) something more "scandalous"/"heartbreaking" such as the institutions versus the happy "hippie" camp of Jened - they wanted to keep up the more traumatized narrative of disabled people, rather than the narrative that they're actual people.

This can easily be tied into transgender youth and their movement due to the fact that most people have an idea of children already, being naive and unaware of the world around them, and not trusting them to speak their truth about their own bodies. There is a lack of information about transgender children throughout history, which also helps frame the narrative that it's something "new" within society. Just from the simple act of hiding the information not only for others' safety, but to align with society's view on children's bodies as well.