Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex
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Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex
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#2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La7ZirXO2Ps&t=10 is a great documentary (in German)
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#3To put the current transgender moral panic in perspective, the Nazis persecuted Hirschfeld in the 30s for doing with surgical technology what we can do with hormones and puberty blockers (and better surgery) today.
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#4Kinda crazy to read this in current context, with the wave of anti-trans and anti-LGBT legislations. We made such a big step forward, and yet...
Early 20th century Berlin sounds like a fun place. And what time to be. Around that time Otto Weininger wrote his Sex and Character, defying sex/gender as a spectrum.
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#5Kinda crazy to read this in current context, with the wave of anti-trans and anti-LGBT legislations. We made such a big step forward, and yet... Early 20th century Berlin sounds like a fun place. And what time to be. Around that time Otto Weininger wrote his Sex and Character, defying sex/gender as a spectrum.
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#6Kinda crazy to read this in current context, with the wave of anti-trans and anti-LGBT legislations. We made such a big step forward, and yet... Early 20th century Berlin sounds like a fun place. And what time to be. Around that time Otto Weininger wrote his Sex and Character, defying sex/gender as a spectrum.
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Allowing people to live the lives they want to live seems like a positive thing. What steps backward would you like to see?
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#10Kinda crazy to read this in current context, with the wave of anti-trans and anti-LGBT legislations. We made such a big step forward, and yet... Early 20th century Berlin sounds like a fun place. And what time to be. Around that time Otto Weininger wrote his Sex and Character, defying sex/gender as a spectrum.
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Ah yes, the moral Judeo-Christian values majority, known for their (checks notes) repeated protection of sexual assault perpetrators, particularly against children. Tell me more about the "decadent society" that queer people are causing by daring to exist in public