Sometimes things are just... Hard.
(repost) I know sometimes it can be easy to sink into despair. At times everything just feels wrong and dysporia makes it hard to function... I still have hard days sometimes, but it does get easier. I believe in you 💕
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meet cute 💕✨
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we really need to stop associating facial and body hair with men. it's just hair. someone having a beard or body hair does not instantly make them a man. women, intersex, perisex, trans and cis all can naturally beards and body hair. men, intersex, perisex, trans and cis can all never grow facial or body hair, ever.
if a woman has a beard for whatever reason, it doesn't invalidate their womanhood or make them partially or wholly a man. if a man can't grow facial hair or refuses to, this doesn't make him any less of a man. trans and intersex women are not obligated to shave their faces constantly in order to be seen as women. trans and intersex men are not obligated to try to grow or make it look like they grow facial hair in order to be seen as men people deserve bodily autonomy when it comes to hair, especially if it just literally grows there against your will.
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There's a myth repeated by both the left and right that we don't have records of what Nazis destroyed in the book burnings. Historians know some but not all of the literature. Much of it discussed queer/trans issues. Here are some examples of what Nazis didn't want you to know:
Among the most impactful transgender books Nazis burned was Magnus Hirschfeld's 1910 Die Transvestiten. The book focused on the history and politics of transgender people. Thankfully, it was a bestseller and original copies existed outside Germany. transreads.org/dietransvestiten2/
Some texts were permanently lost during Nazi book burnings. The Institute for Sexual Science held singular copies of trans medical records and surgical techniques. Nazis famously destroyed Karl Baer's files. Baer was among the first trans/intersex people to get medical treatment. His 1907 autobiography, Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years, thankfully survived. It is available in English at transreads.org/a-mans-maiden-years
We will never recover many texts Nazis destroyed. Felix Abraham, Richard Muhsam, & Ludwig Levy-Lenz's now-lost writings on gender-affirming medicine would have helped drastically improve care. Some of their research survived, but we do not know the extent of their lost techniques.
Nazis burned Magnus Hirschfeld's 5-volume Geschlechtskunde ("Sex Studies"). It included lengthy descriptions of the history, politics, and treatment of queer/trans people. A few copies still exist, including this gorgeous print of the illustrated Volume 4 I saw in the New York Public Library archives.
Nazis didn't only destroy books but also films, photographs, and 3D ephemera like sculptures. They burned copies of many important queer/trans films, including Different from the Others (now partially restored) and an adaptation of Karl Baer's autobiography, A Man’s Girlhood (fully lost).
Destroying literature, film, and culture is the foundation of fascism. If you wonder what you would have done in 1933, now is the time to prove you would have acted. It never ends with books.
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