Madame DeLyte

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.

In the world of entertainment, movies were quickly replacing the vaudeville stage. Drag artists found that the art of gender illusion didn't translate very well into the movie format. New actors went for the screen roles of Hollywood, leaving the old vaudeville stars to stagnate behind them.

Beyond that, the very natures of sex and gender were changing in ways that had never been seen before.

Text that reads, "I'm actually veryyyy big into the stock market." Over lots of pictures of soup stock in various pots.