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Did Hirschfeld coin the word and concept ‘transsexual’?
It is often claimed that Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923 anticipated David Cauldwell (1949) and Harry Benjamin (1953) in coining the term ‘transsex*’ by using the expression ‘seelischer transsexualismus’ or...
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Toni Simon (1887 - 1979) cafe owner, high voltage tester, pornography smuggler
Simon was raised in Thuringia with the name of Anton. Father was a blacksmith. Even as a child Simon wore girls’ clothes whenever possible, and was pleased to do housework for mother. At age 17 Simon...
View ArticleThe pinkwashing of Hershey's chocolate
There have been various articles about Hershey's using a trans model in an advertisement.Personally when buying chocolate I always avoid Hershey's. When I can get Ritter or Waterbridge, why would I...
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Georgina Beyer (1957 - ) actress, sex worker, politician.
++Original version posted January 2013.George Bertrand was a Maori of Te Ati Awa, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Raukawa, and Ngati Porou descent. A second child was adopted out. The father quickly...
View ArticleOli London (1990 - ) influencer, temporary trans person
London was born and raised in London. In 2013 he went to Seoul, Korea to teach English. He took to the South Korean culture and their music, and especially became obsessed with Jimin of the boy band...
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Lucy Salani (1924-2023) upholsterer, concentration camp survivor
Salani was born in Fassano in Piedmont, and raised in Bologna with the name Luciano. As a teenager Salani was unsure of what she was, information about Hirschfeld’s clinic and what it achieved being...
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Navigating this encyclopedia
I have had a few emails recently that mentioned difficulties in finding particular entries in this encyclopedia. I had realised that some time ago and wrote a navigation guide, which I placed as one...
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Benjamin's Newer Aspects of the Transsexual Phenomenon
Harry Benjamin published The Transsexual Phenomenon in 1966. Two years later he presented a paper at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in Boston, May 1968., in which he gave some...
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Designated dangerous?!
A reader, trannysleidys, reports that Norton is designating this site as 'dangerous'. To regard being trans as a normal variation of being human is presumably the dangerous idea that I am...
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...
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Trans Italy - the 1960s
1960The Olympics Games were held in Rome: The Ukrainian sisters Tamara and Irina Press representing the USSR, who were rumoured to be intersex or something, won gold and silver medals. Two British...
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Safe browsing on this encylopedia
There were a couple of queries recently about the safety of this site. This surprised me in that I never ask you for name, IP number or any other data, nor do you download from here.All I could think...
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...
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Trans Italy 1971-85
In this period, trans activism expanded and after lobbying and street demonstrations, the 1982 Act of Parliament led to rights for post-op trans persons. Also in this period a good number of trans...
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Trans Italy 1986-2000
1986Marcella Di Folco moved to Bologna where Movimento Italiano Transessuali had its headquarters. AjitaUS filmstar Ajita Wilson was arrested by the carabinieri in a brothel in Florence and tried to...
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Lorena Capelli (195? – 1976) performer
Lorena Capelli was born in Rio de Janeiro, and was an early transitioner. Her father initially beat her, but, being in the Brazilian diplomatic corps, obtained for her a passport in her female name and...
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US Post Office, censorship, sex and gender - Comstockery
First published March 2013.Most countries use their postal systems to censor correspondence and publications. This is in addition to censorship though the court system. The usual excuse is that of...
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Marlene Parker (1930 - ) hairdresser, actor
Parker was born as Siegfried Speck in Dresden in December 1930, in the last years of the Weimar Republic. Speck’s mother being a deaf mute, the baby was placed in an orphanage until adopted in 1937....
View ArticleDonald A Wollheim/Darrell G Raynor (1914-1990) science fiction writer and...
(writing as Darrell Raynor, Wollheim invariably used male pronouns for other transvestites, and this will be taken as his choice of pronoun)(All page references to A Year Among the Girls (AYAG) are to...
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Donald A Wollheim/Darrell G Raynor - Part II
Continued from Part I. In 1963, Susanna and Marie sold their resort property as it was unprofitable. In early 1964 they bought another 150 acre property with a large house, again in the Catskills,...
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