Calls for trans elimination

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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh and the Nazi comparison is highly apt, considering the Nazis burned much early trans research done by Hirschfield and that LGBT people were also targeted by them during the Holocaust.

Since you brought up the Nazis and Magnus Hirschfeld, you should know that some of the doctors who worked with Magnus Hirschfeld also joined the Nazi party and became prominent in it.

In fact, the physician Hirschfeld arranged to do the first "sex change" surgeries in the 1920s and early 30s, Erwin Gohrbandt, went on to become a big-time Nazi doctor who did experiments on prisoners in Dachau. In February 1945, Gohrbandt was awarded the Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkeuzes (Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords) courtesy of the personal authority of Adolf Hilter.

In 1922 Magnus Hirschfeld arranged for Gohrbandt to do the castration on Dörchen Richter. In 1931, Hirschfeld had him to do the castration and penectomy on Einar Wegener/Lily Elber of "The Danish Girl" fame. No doubt Gohrbandt's work with Hirschfeld had influence on fellow Nazi physician, Josef Mengele, aka the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz, who tried to do "sex change" surgeries on prisoners there - without anesthesia too.

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As far as I can tell Hirschfield himself has never been implicated in shady activity. He was Jewish and lived in exile later on. If people who worked with him worked with the Nazis later that is hardly his fault. It's awful that historically trans people have sometimes had to rely on the medical care of people who see us in twisted, horrible ways. At that point in time, what were our options? Let a horrible person do the surgery or not get it? I'd still choose to have it. All the more reason that we have to not immediately trust people who claim to know what we need and want. Sex change surgery on someone who doesn't want it is obviously barbaric, but trans people who get it consent to and desire it.