Medical Gothic
Medical Gothic is the type of terror that falls upon the Queer when it is subject to the brute corrective force of the medical institution. The “normalization” of bodies through medicine forces Queerness to make itself fit into predefined categories – and in some cases, even those categories of FTM and MTF (while also being passing, closeted, and politically docile) are deemed medically uncanny.
Medical Gothic also addresses the schism in the queer community that divides transgender individuals on an arbitrary basis of “respectability” (read: ability to conform to the gender binary). Astounding accomplishments in medicine, such as gender affirming hormone therapy, become just another method of control when carefully controlled to allow only certain individuals to transition in a binary, one-to-the-other fashion.
Like the classic Gothic, the Medical Gothic has a recurring cast of archetypes, some of which cast well onto previously established Gothic figures, while others

The Figure of the Expert
From The Queer Gazes Back:
“All bodies are subject to scrutiny under the clinical gaze, but they are policed unequally; women are more often than men subjected to having their bodies simultaneously medicalized and made deviant as a form of social and physical control. As I have examined previously in writings on the medicalization of sex, the clinical gaze affects all bodies by making them “amenable to expert scrutiny” (Howson 153). Because the body is being perceived and studied by the expert, it is subject to the opinions and ideals of that expert.”