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?

Magnus Hirschfeld and p. 12 from Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon (1966), where Benjamin first mentions “too many data on prominent Nazis, former patients of Hirschfeld.”

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…