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Albin Pleva (1912 - 194?) dancer
Albin Pleva was a travelling travesti dancer, who occasionally supplemented her income by some sex work. She was arrested by the Czech authorities subservient to the Nazi occupation for being...
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Karl Giese (1898 - 1938) Hirschfeld's archivist, facilitator
Karl Giese was raised by a working-class family in Berlin, in the Wedding district, close to where the Leopoldplatz U-Bahn station was opened in 1923. He was a student when in 1918 he attended a...
View ArticleEmilie Kellner (1873 - ?) police officer and Hirschfeld patient
Kellner, born in Hanover, a husband and father, had been for many years a Berlin police officer (Kriminalschutzmann). Kellner had also been divorced on grounds of adultery. By 1912 Kellner was allowed...
View ArticleTransvestitenschein, the German license to cross-dress - Part I Weimar Republic
Part I: Weimar RepublicPart II: Third ReichThe legal position: § 175 of the Prussian legal code, which criminalised male (but not female) homosexuality, had been extended to the whole of Germany...
View ArticleTransvestitenschein - Part II Third Reich
Background: While the Nazi party was - with a few exceptions such as Ernst Röhm, leader of the Sturmabteilung [SA] - mainly anti-queer, its persecution was mainly aimed at gay men. Some trans persons...
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Felix Abraham (1901 - 1937) doctor, Hirschfeld associate
Part I: lifePart II: bookInitial version: February 2016.Felix Abraham and his older sister, Erna, were the children of a Dutch mother and a Frankfurt am Main doctor, the Jewish medical councillor...
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Felix Abraham. Part II: Les Perversions Sexuelles
Felix Abraham: life bookDepending where you find a citation of this book, the assumed major author is any one of three.Felix Abraham, translated by Pierre Vachet. Les...
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Brigitte Bond (1944 - ) beat girl, singer, performer
At the beginning of 1964 the then 19-year-old, Brigitte Bond, was signed as a singer by Tom Littlewood of the 2i’s Coffee Bar in London’s Soho which had launched early rock stars such as Tommy Steels...
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Masuda Yasumare (1908 - ?) ill-fated lover
Saijo Eriko, then 23, was a leading musumeyaku, a player of female roles in the all-female revue Shôchiku Shōjo Kageki, who had been in the 1933 short film Wakasa to netsu no shûdan geijutsu: Shôchiku...
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The 1953 symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine
Emil Gutheil (1889-1959) was born in Czerlany close to Lviv, which was originally in Poland, but then part of Austria-Hungary and now is in the Ukraine. He was educated at the University of Vienna. He...
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Books on Gender Variance in 2022 - Part 1: (auto) biographies
Part 1: (auto) biographiesPart 2: otherPart 3: RuminationsTrans Person AutoBiographyAlexandra Billings. This Time for Me: A Memoir. Topple Books, 2022.Dayne Bachman. She, He, Me: A Transgender Man's...
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Books on Gender Variance in 2022 - Part 2: Others
Part 1: (auto) biographiesPart 2: othersPart 3: Ruminations$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. Cameron Awkward-Rich. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Duke University Press,...
View ArticleRuminations on recent books
Part 1: (auto) biographiesPart 2: othersPart 3: RuminationsThere were certainly a large number of autobiographies this year, although some were from 2021 - I having missed them last year.I would be...
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Japanese male-impersonation troupes: Part I - Kabuki & Takarazuka Revue
Part I - Kabuki & Takarazuka Revue Part II- Shôchiku Revue & Ichikawa Shōjo KabukiKabuki1600s: Izumo no Okuni出雲の阿国 had been raised in service to the Grand Shrine of Izumi. She was known for her...
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Japanese male-impersonation troupes: Part II- Shôchiku Revue & Ichikawa Shōjo...
Part I - Kabuki & Takarazuka Revue Part II- Shôchiku Revue & Ichikawa Shōjo KabukiShôchiku RevueThe Shôchiku Corporation is Japan’s oldest film and entertainment company. It was founded in 1895...
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Harry Benjamin in Transvestia Magazine
A decade ago a fair number of trans activists - especially the Harry Benjamin Syndrome people and the ‘Classic Transsexuals’ - strongly distanced the all-accepting Harry Benjamin from the homophobic,...
View ArticleComments on the Scottish 2023 Gender Recognition Act
Legal and Legislative stuffFebruary 1971. In the final ruling in Corbett vs Corbett, Justice Roger Ormrod redefined legal intersex status as the discordance at birth of chromosomal, gonadal and...
View ArticleHomosexual autogynephilics?
In November 2012 I wrote an article "The ebb and flow of social constructions" mainly re the two currents of HBS and AGP. There has been no activity there for ten years. However recently Dakota...
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Countries where trans persons may self-id (no psychiatric or other medial...
2010 Council of Europe resolution calling for self-id2012 Argentina2014 DenmarkSlightly out of date: add Spain & FinlandAmnesty appealed for "quick, accessible and transparent procedures and in...
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