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What is a Christine Jorgensen

Tfw nazis literally burnt Hirschfeld’s (sp?) papers so we wouldn’t be in the history books

Like I wanna be really clear. Hirschfeld was literally moving to a depathologized explanation of trans women (inversion as variance not defect) and was advocating for providing trans women with HRT and surgery, all the while treat numerous trans women with hormones, in the early 1930s. Berlin had a thriving trans and gay community you have never heard of because the nazis destroyed it and the systematically erased evidence of it.

It’s not that trans women have only existed the last thirty years, it’s that you have been intentionally denied knowledge of our history by reactionaries who want to see us dead.

In 1946 renowned new zealander Harold Gilles preformed the first FtM sex reassignment surgeries.

1946. A lot longer than 30 years ago.

In 1951 he was able to preform the opposite, pioneering techniques for those who were transitioning from male to female.

So anyone who says its only 30 years… should look to a local plastic surgeon and ask about Mr Gilles.

• 1812  – James Miranda Barry graduated from the Medical School of Edinburgh University as a doctor. Barry went on to serve as an army surgeon working overseas. Barry lived as a man but was found to be female-bodied upon his death in 1865.
• 1932  – The News of the World published a story, ‘Amazing Change of Sex’, about a trans man from Sussex who transitioned ‘from Margery to Maurice’. Colonel Sir Victor Barker DSO (1895 - 1960) married Elfrida Haward in Brighton. Barker’s birth sex (female) is later revealed and the marriage is consequently annulled….
  
• 1936  – A 30-year-old British athletic champion, Mark Weston of Plymouth, transitioned from female to male. The story appeared in some national newspapers, including the News of the World (31 May 1936). The reportage was accurate and sensitive. In the words of L. R. Broster, the Harley Street surgeon who treated him, ‘Mark Weston, who has always been brought up as a female, is a male and should continue to live as such’.
  

There is some debate on James Barry but I still think this is relevant. All of these taken from wikipedia timeline of LGBT history. (I had a look a few months ago out of curiosity.)

in 218 AD. there was a roman emperor named Elagabalus who regularly wore womans clothing and surgically removed their penis and prefered to be called mistress and wife by their husband. Its very likely that elagabalus, an assigned male at birth, was a transgirl.