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Curt Thomalla (1890 – 1939) doctor, writer
Thomalla, from Silesia, studied law and then medicine at the universities of Lausanne, Kiel, Würzburg, Erlangen und Breslau.A volunteer in the War, he was severely injured in 1914. He passed the state...
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Moscow, 1926
In Nikolai Krementsov's Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction, Oxford, 2013, we find on page 152."Available evidence indicates that at least one Moscow...
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Deborah Hartin (1933 -2005) sailor, activist
The AP wire photo of DebbieAustin Hartin joined the US Navy in 1953. He married while serving in Florida the next year. Later Hartin would explain that he married to escape from having to live in the...
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Carys Massarella (1965–) physician.
Calum Massarella grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1990, cum laude, and completed an FRCPC in Emergency Medicine at McMaster University in 1997. From...
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40 trans persons in Australia who changed things by example and/or achievement
PhysiciansNorman Haire (1892 – 1952) Australian sexologist, colleague of Hirschfeld. GVWW book Herbert Bower (1914 - 2006) co-founder of Monash Gender Dysphoria Clinic. ObituaryTrudy Kennedy (1936 -...
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Selena Robbins (193? - ) actress
Selena Robbins, now almost forgotten, had already completed transition when she became involved in the New York cinema-theater underground of the late 1960s. Sexploitation auteur Andy Milligan cast her...
View ArticleBenito B. Rish (192? - 2007) plastic surgeon
Benito Rish became licensed to practice in the State of New York in 1949. He was mainly a plastic surgeon, and became known as a urologist and for his rhinoplasty and other facial surgery. He worked at...
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Ossy Gades (1902 – 1936) performer, barman
From 1929-31 Ossy Gades worked as the transvestite door-host and taxi-dancer first at the Eldorado nightclub at Lutherstrasse 30, and then at the new and larger premises at Motzstrasse. Ossy was...
View ArticleDavid R Wesser (1933 – 2008) sex-change surgeon
David Wesser gained an MD degree from New York University-Bellevue College of Medicine and was trained in Reconstructive Surgery. During the Vietnam War he served as a Major in the US Army Medical...
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Berlin’s Eldorado. Part I: to 1928
There were several Eldorados in Berlin in the interwar period. Our major interest is in the three opened and run by Ludwig Konjetschni. Other bars catering to transvestites were Hannemann, opened in...
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Berlin's Eldorado. Part II: 1928-33
Continued from Part I. Motzstrasse 15. Success at the Lutherstrasse 30 encouraged Konjetschni to find larger premises, and he opened in the former Grand Cafe Luitpold early in 1928. Both Lutherstrasse...
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Queens Liberation Front, 1972
In the 6th edition of Drag Magazine, Online, the QLF presented a report of what it had achieved to that date. Some of the wording is dated, particularly in using ‘men’ and ‘he’. The struggle for...
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Herbert Bower (1914 – 2004) psychiatrist, sex change doctor
Herbert Bower, the only child of Jewish parents, was training as a doctor in Vienna in 1938. After the Nazi takeover, he fled to Switzerland, and completed his studies at the University of Basel, after...
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Anne Vitale (1938 - ) gender therapist
Vitale first qualified as an artist, doing a 1972 BA at the University of California at San Diego followed by a Master of Fine Arts. After some years of therapy for gender identity issues, she did a...
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Adolf Butenandt (1903 – 1995) hormone chemist
Adolf Butenandt was raised in Lehe, near Bremerhaven, the son of a businessman. The first from his family to go to university, he studied chemistry at Marburg and Göttingen, and graduated PhD from the...
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Frederik Vilhelm Schmidt (1845 – 1936) orphanage head, inmate
Frederikke Vilhelmine Møller, the daughter of a metal worker was raised in Copenhagen. Her father died in 1856, and she was raised by her grandparents. At age 20, working as a maid, Vilhelmine was...
View ArticleJesus used unisex toilets
Certain parts of the US seem to have gone nuts about toilets. The opponents against trans persons being allowed to use toilets seem to base their claim on something in their religion.I am not aware...
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Michel Seghers (1932 – 2014) sex-change surgeon
Michel Seghers qualified as a doctor at the Catholic University of Luvain in 1957. As an alternative to Belgian military service he did a three-year medical internship in the then Belgian Congo, first...
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A rereading of Benjamin: Part 1: intro and the Scale
Harry Benjamin's book is now 50 years old. This is the only close reading of the book available.Harry Benjamin. The Transsexual Phenomenon. Julian Press, 1966. Warner Books Edition 1977, with a...
View ArticleBetty (?1938 - ?) female impersonator, salesgirl, model
Betty was raised in the US Northwest, one of five children. He was initially permitted to dress as a girl, but his parents divorced when he was five, and the step-father objected to the...
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