How Transgender Historians Gave Magnus Hirschfeld the Marsha P. Johnson Treatment
What about the eugenics, the Nazi doctor who pioneered ‘sex change,’ and the files on Hirschfeld’s prominent Nazi patients?
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Hirschfeld and his pupils saw many of these persons [transvestites, mostly cross-dressing men] in his Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin, Germany. This memorable Institute…
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