#I mean like damn

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[officialspec]

can i say something. for years i thought the joke of the song short skirt/long jacket by cake was that he wanted a woman who was hung like a horse. like i thought when he says jacket it was a last-second fakeout because he very obviously meant to say cock. and the rest of the things in the song were just her personality and interests. which were secondary to her awesome penis

#is anyone else doing this. or am i stupid #i didnt question it at all i thought that was just the obviously intended meaning of the song #and i was like damn this is pretty progressive for the 90s i wonder why no one talks about this song when theyre talking abt #popular songs about trans women at the time. i guess some of the stuff mentioned could potentially rub people the wrong way- #OH. SO IT WAS JUST ABOUT A WOMAN WHOIS PRAGMATIC AND BUSINESS CASUAL WITH IT. I SEE #EDIT THE LINE 'a voice that is dark like tinted glass' LIKE....U GET WHAT I MEAN

[c-tepx]

soooo to laios chilchuck is roughly the size of his dogs. huh. i am so normal about this.

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #chilchuck tims #dunmeshi #dunmeshi laios #chilaios #dunmeshi chilchuck #laios x chilchuck #giving the new meaning to the size difference trope #like. damn. #if divorced middle aged man why so baby shaped #little meow meow and I do mean little

[tiger-is-a-certified-idiot]

The Sandman fandom is fucking hilarious to me bc everyone is like "i wanna put him in a box and study him" or "i wanna put him into Situations :3" and then they DID actually do that in the show like right at the beginning and half of the fanfiction is getting that guy OUT of the Situation.

#the sandman #sandman #dream of the endless #we love a good fishbowl heist #and i mean i like dreamling as much as the next guy #but DAMN could we use some variety

[jay-wasstuff]

#okay but fr i died that they kept on kissing whilst Zheng was calling for them like they really said 'this is important just wait damn!' #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #edward teach #stede bonnet #blackbeard #gentleblack #blackbonnet #taika waititi #rhys darby #david jenkins #zheng yi sao #ofmd susan #also this is my FOURTH live reaction post from this season 😂😭 - everyone had that 'in front of my salad' energy 24/7 this time around!

[phoenixgreen]

if we finally get to hear him talk next episode and he has hunters voice I‘m going to collapse

#I mean he has to have the same voice right #the other two golden guards we heard did #so it’s very likely #also damn #who would’ve thought Caleb would have worse eyebags than Hunter #death does that to a person #toh #the owl house #dana terrace #fanart #caleb wittebane #my art #artists on tumblr #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh for the future #toh s3 spoilers

[captain-flint]

You make Stede happy. / I'll never leave you. I'll never leave again.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmd s2 spoilers #edward teach #blackbeard #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #blackbonnetedit #gentlebeard #gentlebeardedit #taika waititi #rhys darby #idk if this was done already i haven't seen it and it's killliiiiing meeeeeeeeeeeeeee #that damned eyebrow and the smile #it's the exact same face #he even does a little nervous swallow both times #STEDE MAKES HIM SO HAPPY 😭😭 #my stuff #(these two gifs took me like 45 min to make lmao rip) #(once i get my laptop fixed it's all over for u guys)

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

#and also. not the direct focus. but love doesn't make things good. you can be in love and do terrible terrible things. #people do bad things in the name of love and in despite of love all the time. #but!! imagine a world where people could exist as people and not be demonized. #sex positivity means being cool about All sex. reexamine your internal systems of moral judgement. #this goes for sex workers. for aroallo people. especially aroallo men. for aro people in general who might enjoy sex. #and frankly i think it can easily bleed into discussions about mental health disorders around 'not feeling' certain things #especially demonizing ppl who don't feel as much empathy. i think there's definitely a correlation between that and the emphasis on love. #our support needs to go out to Everybody and i think these things are all structured together in one way or another!! #it might not be immediately obvious but when i tell you it all leads back to amatonormativity..... little bit wild.... large bit wild.... #anyway. horror movie psychopath 'oh he can't feel emotions or love' damn alright. well. let's take a closer look at that. #silly that there's an association between lack of love and Murdering. feel like that might affect some stuff. #love is just an emotion/a feeling it doesn't mean anything about you one way or another #same with empathy. you can feel it all you want but it doesn't inherently change the actions you choose to take #anyway. thesis statement. there is a socially constructed link between love and morality. unlearn that. #kiss kiss (<— lovelessly) #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #talking #aroace #aspec #sex positivity

[toastydumpster]

rough night

#husk is a good listener but not a great comforter #(i mean GREAT motivator but the man is just NOT emotional like that) #sometimes is better to just...not say a damn thing #huskerdust #angelhusk #husker #angel dust #hazbin hotel #my art

[lelelego]

waiting and waiting

#fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #craig boone #boone/courier #hi here's a comic i worked on off and on in between stuff ft. the worst possible pairing - a canon character + a player character #what do you mean i have to create content my damn self #this was also literally just talking heads for like 3 goddamn pages hell on earth but theyre just sitting there!!!!!! help #oc: eli #doodly thingy #fallout tag #blood / #violence / #injury / #knives / #long post / #comic

[burr-ell]

yknow when ashton came to talk to percy they had a freshly sprouted, glowing magma arm; visible wounds and burns; and ripped-up tailored clothing, so i have to imagine when they started off the conversation "i just did something really stupid" percy had to restrain himself from the basic bitch comeback of "you don't say"

#ashton: i mean. you get the gist #percy who used to say he was fine while pissing smoke: there's a vibe here yeah #percy's more upset about the clothes. like yeah i want to 1-round you but that was a serve damn #percy de rolo #ashton greymoore #critical role

[jcams88]

Buzzfeed really said We are going directly for the throat with this one, huh

#try guys #the try guys #ned fulmer #ned fulmer is a cheater #directly for the throat is what he deserves #but also damn his former employer is G O I N G for it #i also wanna be very clear that just because everyone is dunking on ned #doesn't mean that alex should be absolved of her part in this #like girl that's your boss and you also work with his wife #you've definitely spent time around his kids #wtf is wrong with you?

[wasyago]

the man(?), the myth(?), the legend(?)

#actually one of the hardest designs to figure out for some reason #his voice and maner of speech have a *very* specific vibe in my head that i can't quite pinpoint #gave him a goatee in some sketches for that exact reason. he just doesn't look uh something enough without it #like? you know what i mean? #when niklaus says 'well. certainly' and 'let's make a deal. yes?' in his damn voice the image in my head is both very vivid and nonexistent #augh #anyway i like him a lot. he's cool :3 chilling in his ghibli themed pocked dimension #jrwi riptide #jrwi niklaus #niklaus hendrix #my art #sketch

[hermit-frog]

#Interview with the Vampire #Louis de Pointe du Lac #Lestat De Lioncourt #iwtv #tvedit #Vampterview #iwtvedit #would highly recommend this show 😀👍 #different kind of pains. lestat looks angry (his eyebrows and fists). louis — desperate powerless (i mean look at his face damn) #this show needs to be nominated wtf #the amount of times i had to redo the 2nd gif and it still looks like shit 🤕 #tdl #this means nothing. just felt like it #*gif

[thelastharbinger]

You know what's really rubbing salt into this wound? There is a recent Try Guys upload where because Alex is supposed to be getting married, was featured in a video where the guys had to purchase bridesmaid dresses and their engaged staff and respective partners had to select a winner for best outfit and that person was effectively to become their bridesmaid pick.

Ned literally wore a bridesmaid dress, for FUN, FOR the employee he cheated on his wife with, whom is also ENGAGED, AND had been creating content around her upcoming wedding on the channel as well. What. The. Fuck.

[Edit: Now that we know Ned and Alex have been together since at least December 2021 (when Alex's partner found pics + vids of them on her phone and asked Ned to back off--he did not), and the video mentioned above came out in February 2022...

I'm at a total mindfuck.]

[Re:Edit: Just found this on twitter...it just keeps getting worse

#it wouldve been WAY worse if in that video she actually ended up selecting ned to be her bridesmaid #but in hindsight i guess there was also a reason for that too #i mean...fuuuck #try guys #the try guys #ned fulmer #rewatching that video back now is an abdolute TRIP #also didn't he also very recently talk about maybe wanting more kids with ariel??? like sir? sir. #and the guys finally have their own show on the food network & if there were any time to be nervous abt a 2nd season well #now is it #like this screwed over everyone but most of all ariel and their kids ofc. damn.

[norrisleclercf1]

Fuckboi lando back

#why is he dressed like a walking red flag #i mean i love it cause damn #but RED FLAG #love him #hes so hot #fuck #lando norris #ln4 #ln #f1 #formula 1 #f1 fandom #formula one #f1 x reader