[clutches my pearls] Trans people in 1921?!??! But I thought trans people were trend of todayâs youth!
Iâd like to add my great great aunt Flora!
Y'all wanna know why we donât see or hear about trans people from that era?
Thatâs because that picture was taken at what is known in its native language as Institut fĂźr 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 fĂźr 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.
Weâve always been here, but our future is not guaranteed. We have to fight for our survival, because itâs happening again.
