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Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Shrovetide, also known as the Pre-Lenten Season or Forelent, is the Christian period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. It culminates in Shrove Tuesday which is also...
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A Rereading of Liz Hodgkinson’s Bodyshock: The Truth About Changing Sex,...
Part I: lifePart II: bookLiz Garret (1945 - ) was raised in Cambridgeshire (where she befriended Amaryllis Garnett, great niece of Virginia Woolf), and read English at Durham University. After a very...
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A Rereading of Bodyshock: the truth about changing sex , 1987
Part I: lifePart II: bookLiz Hodgkinson. Bodyshock: the truth about changing sex. Columbus, 1987.The book is dedicated to Judy Cousins.The term ‘sex-change’ was then in common use, and will be used in...
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Three other trans persons who transitioned under the aegis of Magnus Hirschfeld
Hertha HaaseThis photograph was published in the Berliner Morgenpost 28th March 1930.Some said that she was the best Damenschneider (dressmaker) in BerlinShe had completion surgery in 1932 under the...
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The DSM - Part I: history of the APA
Part I: history of the APA Part II: reading the 7 versions of the DSM Part III: comments This is about the American Psychiatric Association (APA), not to be confused with the American Psychological...
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The DSM - Part II: reading the 7 versions of the DSM
Part I: history of the APA Part II: reading the 7 versions of the DSM Part III: commentsDSM I, 1952 145 pagesThere is no section for Homosexuality or anything trans. However under *000-x50 Personality...
View ArticleThe DSM - Part III: comments
Part I: history of the APA Part II: reading the 7 versions of the DSM Part III: commentsCommentsHomosexuality never was in the DSMs in the way that Transsexuality and Transvestism later were. DSMs I...
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The murderers amongst us
I recently noticed an upsurge in my top-ten articles of those convicted of murder, and was wondering why.Then I discovered this terfy page. Several of the comments added by JLeGuin (the original...
View ArticleEmi Wolters (Luz Fraumann) performer (186? - ?)
Wolters wore girls’ clothing until the start of school, and still then during vacations: she was called Hanne by the farm personnel and still later by grandfather. At the age of 13, her custody was...
View ArticleFriederike Blank, curtain maker (1799-1853)
Blank was raised in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. After the parents separated, Blank learned sewing and embroidery from his mother. As an adult Blank made a successful living as a self-employed...
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Max Tilke (1869-1942) artist, costumier
Tilke was born in Breslau which was then in Prussia (now in Poland and known as Wroclaw). He studied art at the Preußische Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and specialised in costumes. He enjoyed the...
View ArticleRuth Fischer-Freund (188? - ?) tax official, Hirschfeld patient
Rudolph Fischer was a tax official in Berlin. In 1912 he married Hilde Freund who was aware of his cross-dressing and rather enjoyed the masquerade. In 1916 Fischer was conscripted into the Landstrum,...
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Liddy Bacroff (1908 - 1943) sex worker
Heinrich Habitz from Ludwigshafen in Rheinland-Pfalz, across the river from Mannheim, was raised by the grandparents, and spent a year in a correctional home for being difficult to raise. Early...
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Henriett B. (1908 - ?) maid, sex worker
B., raised in Hanover, Germany, had worn women's clothes exclusively since the age of 17 and worked as a maid, in one job for as long as seven years. Also in 1925 she had sexual contact with a man for...
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Josefine Meißauer (188? - ?) friar, trader
Original version February 2015. Meißauer was born to a devout Catholic family in Mühldorf, Bavaria, the youngest of six children. The father - addicted to drink - left 14 years later. One brother died...
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Karl Kohnheim (1885 - ? ) businessman
Kohnheim, a tomboy who had grown up a masculine woman, and then passing as a man, was often mocked if he wore female clothing. As a man he passed well, had a small inheritance and wished to open his...
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Berthold Buttgereit (1891 - 1983) bookkeeper
Buttgereit was born and raised in Berlin, a tomboy who grew up to be a trans man. In 1912, at the age of 21, Buttgereit approached Magnus Hirschfeld and with an expert opinion from Hirschfeld and the...
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Toni Ebel (1881 – 1961) artist.
++Original January 2015; revised February 2022, to incorporate information about Charlotte Charlaque, and August 2022 to incorporate more information from Wolfert's book.Hugo Otto Arno Ebel was raised...
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Christopher Isherwood, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and trans women.
Christopher Isherwood, the English author of Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939), lived in the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft November 1929 - October 1930.The Institut für...
View ArticleGerd Kubbe (1887 - ) from concentration camp to legal name change
Kubbe had had a Transvestitenschein in the Weimer Republic, but it was withdrawn in 1933 after the National Socialist takeover. He continued to live and work as male until 24 January 1938 when "on the...
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