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Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex
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#12To 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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld
New to me, thanks.
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That's an extremely inaccurate description of HN. When I see those, I always feel like someone needs to respond.
HN is a large public forum. Any such site gets a long tail of comments—every slot on the spectrum gets represented—but absolutely not to the same degree. A minuscule minority of egregious comments does not characterize the community. Not at all.
Perceptions like this are strongly affected by cognitive biases. For example, people are far more likely to notice and remember painful data points than pleasurable ones. Therefore, a handful of (in this case) homophobic comments will make orders of magnitude more of an impression than tons of moderate, favorable, or loving ones. This is the way we're all wired [1], but it unfortunately leads people to highly distorted impressions of the community [2].
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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#17For those folks visiting Paris in Summer: consider visiting the current exhibition at the Centre Pompidou : Nouvelle Objectivité / August Sander
It runs until beginning of September and covers the second part of the 1920s in Berlin.