Born To Overcome

it’s a freaking blessing to be whatever age you are. so many people haven’t made it to your age. so many people want to make it to your age. don’t let anyone make you feel like you’re old...or like you should be ashamed for aging or being older than they are.

it’s a blessing to age. it’s a blessing to grow older.

That’s because that picture was taken at what is known in its native language as Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, it is the place where the first trans healthcare was developed, where the term transsexual was coined.

Do you want to know what happened to the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft?

It was the victim of the very first Nazi book burning. Their teachings were outlawed and their books destroyed. Their leaders - such as Magnus Hirschfeld - were criminalized and exiled, if not outright murdered.

The fascists exterminated not just a generation of trans people, but they erased our history from the books almost entirely. It took us almost a century to get back to where we are now.