Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La7ZirXO2Ps&t=10 is a great documentary (in German)

For those folks visiting Paris in Summer: consider visiting the current exhibition at the Centre Pompidou : Nouvelle Objectivité / August Sander

It runs until beginning of September and covers the second part of the 1920s in Berlin.

To put the current transgender moral panic in perspective, the Nazis persecuted Hirschfeld in the 30s for doing with surgical technology what we can do with hormones and puberty blockers (and better surgery) today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld

New to me, thanks.

Kinda crazy to read this in current context, with the wave of anti-trans and anti-LGBT legislations. We made such a big step forward, and yet...

Early 20th century Berlin sounds like a fun place. And what time to be. Around that time Otto Weininger wrote his Sex and Character, defying sex/gender as a spectrum.