#documenting this moment

[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

[winterf4iryy]

fuck all of you who decide to stay neutral. fuck all of you who decide to stay silent. fuck all of you who are not educating yourself about what is happening right now. fuck every celebrity that posted a notes app screenshot of empty words. fuck bbc and nbc and joe biden and the u.s and britain and nearly every western country and media outlet. fuck israel and zionists and privileged white liberals turning a blind eye. fuck all of you. israel bombed a hospital and hundreds if not thousands are dead and a father had to carry the PIECES of his sons in plastic bags because they were blown to bits. a resting place for journalists has now turned into a morgue. every day people are being killed and it’s being DOCUMENTED and you still wanna be silent and neutral and say this doesn’t involve you. your lack of humanity is vile and horrid and i hope you never know one moment of happiness the rest of your life.

#genuinely have lost all of my respect for a LOT of people in the past week #speak the fuck up #use your voice #it doesnt matter if 1 or 100 people see it #IT MATTERS #Repost videos of people in Gaza and what they’re documenting #journalists are on Instagram updating constantly #RESHARE IT #my ig is grnbrviv and ive reposted from accounts of those in gaza #sbeih.jpg has a pinned post labelled Gaza Awareness of people updating in real time #shame on you if you aren’t disturbed by the literally genocide going on at this very moment #palestine #free palestine #gaza

[secondbeatsongs]

hey, don't cry

tumblr is the new pdf! ok?

#tumblr #tumblr is the new pdf #personal #sbs rambles #art #idk what other tag to put this under but this is definitely a thing I made #the big blue rectangle is 2013-era tumblr blue #the dark blue triangle and text shadow are the current ''true blue'' #and the lines and blue corner are what we call ''classic blue'' or ''old blue'' but at 69% opacity #(nice) #in this way I have combined all the eras of tumblr into one #so that I might imagine #just for a moment #that .tumblr is the new portable document format #thank you for coming to my ted talk #graphic design is my passion #anyway hey remember that time yahoo said they wanted to make tumblr ''the new pdf'' #wild #bizarre thing to say #but hey #I think it could still happen #we just have to believe

[lumiereandcogsworth]

au where fernie had a glock this whole time

#PERCY MOMENT PERCY MOMENT #i had to document #he was joking but it’s like. gun + dnd equals percy always #smosh #smosh games #sword af #damien haas #shayne topp #critical role #the legend of vox machina #tlovm #dnd #op

[thisonelikesaliens]

Yuan is making his intentions crystal clear right here

Calling Qian by his name

not Ge

not Da Ge

but Wei Qian

#unknown the series #關於未知的我們 #just really needed to document this moment for posterity #this one translates #this one rambles

[japrilfools]

so we agree that they’re totally gonna kiss at some point, right?

#mika x jules #jules x mika #grey’s anatomy #i don’t know how to gif so i just screenrecorded cropped and put it on ezgif but i needed this moment documented lmao #mika yasuda #jules millin

[amygdalae]

Nox literally only ever sleeps at the foot of the bed or next to my legs but tonight she decided she's pillow

#i had to document this moment. soft animal

[louieshalo]

demiromantic asexual riz gukgak save me… save me demi/ace riz who can’t distinguish his romantic feelings for fabian from his platonic ones

#the demi experience of ‘is this a crush or are we just really good friends’ #yes im projecting shut up #not to mention fabian whose comphet goes so hard he can’t even consider the reason he’s constantly bringing up riz around girls #mazey ily but baby do not date that boy #this has me thinking about that sophmore year moment where murph implies riz stayed up all night to watch fabian dance in fallinel #like I’ll throw up wdym he didn’t want to dance but still stayed to be with fabian #maybe this is the day I finally open a document and write a little scene about that #because murph simply cannot insinuate that and just expect me to move on #like. sorry ? he was there all night just watching him ? no way that wasn’t a night of an intense examination of his life and feelings #not that I don’t love the idea of aroace riz #it just fucks me up so bad when I read into all the accidental subtext murph and lou add so casually #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy spoilers #fabriz

[svtskneecaps]

"do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he created" except it's the qsmp admins realizing players including but not limited to forever, pierre, tazercraft, cellbit, phil, fit, bad, and etoiles are able and completely willing to break the server for reasons such as "to gamble more", or simply because it's funny

#qsmp #pierre crashed the server so they could gamble #fit could absolutely crash the server to gamble #etoiles is so cracked they had to spawn enough mobs to lag the server to pose a threat to him #phil has chayanne in pieces simply bc it's funny #bad would break the server to gamble and he is at the moment functionally immortal (22 totem pop tom over here) #tazercraft caught cucurucho in his chayanne pajamas breaking back into the nether and also shredded a federation build with a fucking drill #cellbit cracked their arg in like a week and may at this point have a more comprehensive lore document than the admin team lmfao #forever has been nerfed at LEAST twice and that's absolutely not gonna be the end of it #this is not an exhaustive list. god help the qsmp admin team. #shut up vic #block game brainrot

[stuckinapril]

There is genuinely so much love ensconcing me rn it’s unreal. Childhood friend throwing me a bday party at her rooftop pool tmr (and im keeping that shit small & exclusive), food made w love from my bibi, drinks and games and music long after sundown, buying the cutest bikini w matching nails, lathering myself in vanilla and coconut body oils, hair marinating in hair masks all day today so my curls get to be all out on my bday, cute pink decorations, all out self care day today before my bday tomorrow. Just??? I cannot believe how bogged down in my negativity bias I get when there are so many exciting changes coming & I am genuinely the luckiest girl alive

#I’m so excited omg #I need to document the happy moments more bc otherwise im just jumping from tragedy to tragedy for no reason #It sounds so Instagram caption cheesy but what is the point if I don’t just embrace these moments full force and stop catastrophizing it al #I wish every month were like a sunny day in April #I’m also doing such a cute glowy sunkissed look btw!!! I wish I could show u guys but way too many creeps exist on this hellsite #So just know im gonna look hot tomorrow.

[tasteofyourblood]

colossal gerard hi moment, everyone in that arena DIED

special shoutout to @lesbianjarjarbinks for the stream!!!

#saw no vid about the hi moment so i decided to go back to the lives and fucking find it #this meteor strike needs to be documented #mcr #my chemical romance #gerard way

[quaranmine]

i think the whole cringe is dead, radical sincerity, depth of genuine emotion, earnest effort, and unironic love thing that tumblr has going on the past few years has transformed my outlook on things and changed me for the better. but it does mean that now the people i know irl will give me strange looks for being too sappy or too poetic or too dedicated or too excited about about something because they're still stuck in their "well i only like this ironically" phase. guess that's their problem tho not mine <3

#like on here i could spontaneously decide to write a poem about life & love & death & the dying peace lily on my parent's porch #and everybody would be like omg love it #or i could write essays analyzing mcrp. or dig up documents from 1910 and 1956 for fanfic research #and everyone is like 🤩 #and in real life there's like a 90% chance anybody would just be like. that's good for you....you're a little weird though..... #or i will say something i was thinking about and people will get all cynic on me or something #SORRY for having a writer's/artist's/photographer's brain i guess and seeing the beauty in the world #idk idk so many people i meet irl are allergic to genuine expressions of emotion or artistry #there was a lady i saw on the train once who was reading a densely-written pocket sized planner...from 2013 #i think about her sometimes. was that her planner? were those good memories? was she trying to remember something? has it been a kind decade #and when i told my dad he couldn't at all see anything i saw in the moment. he just made jokes about her being crazy #but i liked the moment

[vash-in-the-void]

So i finished Becoming Eden [Its me I'm trees] by @madnessmadness a week ago and im feeling very normal still

In fact i felt so normal i made this

I'm so happy how it's turning outtt !!

more images of the inside under the cut

#it contains the fic up until chapter 18 #and the moment Lenipez finishes formating the last chapter i'm adding that and the additional material #and then start working on the cover #also #if anyone is interested in the Word document to do something like this (insane) or to just have the fic downloaded #you can message me or Lenipez (they have the more author aproved version) #but probably after chapter 19 is done :DD #becoming eden #bookbinding #trigun #vashposting

[carlyraejepsans]

i think i found my people

#sorry having a small town queer finally makes friends living in the city moment over here #i just. give people my chosen name and they use it. if i put in one iota of effort even strangers gender me correctly #my course director recognized me from the stage i took in the summer and saw that my name didn't match the legal documents #APOLOGIZED FOR DEADNAMING ME. and said there's a procedure to get my uni credentials fixed even if i haven't legally changed anything yet #I don't think I've ever been so comfortable in my life #fuck I'm gonna cry

[clingyduoapologist]

You guys remember that one time after November 16th during a completely normal ccclingyduo stream on the dsmp tommy launched completely unprompted into a monologue expressing his complicated feelings of grief over cwilbur’s death that was like a huge part of his character moving into season 2 and yet that clip is just like impossible to easily access

#idk if it’s lost but like #that other post has just been on my mind #so much of this shot just isn’t documented #like damn #little moments just lost….. #dream smp

[presiding]

genuinely admire those who were optimistic for dishonored 3 but in this videogame industry climate and [insert a 4hr video essay about arkane's recent history here], honestly, not getting dh3 is good news

#dishonored #arkane studios #i know its silly to meme when the take is nuanced #and i admit that blade is one hell of an aesthetic. but i'm sitting out of this #somewhat being a hater yes. but that is because i am a lover #i dont think its pointless hater-ing though to be critical of something i wish i could love more #my takeaway from arkane is that its better to be not a fan of a company. a company does not make games #a company's staff does. and those staff need to be treated well and given budget and breathing room to make good things #and i have my doubts about that at the moment. very well documented and supported doubts #if arkane is given AAA budget to make a game. it probs wont be another dh. except maybe a remake bc those are 'safe' bets. #ie. dh1 remastered would sell #judging by doto and even dh2 (which i loved even tho its flawed). i dont think arkane really 'get' why dh1 was magical #so im not sure that a third in the series could necessarily recapture it #especially as theyve confirmed they're closing the drawer on the current overarching plotline #this is the hater corner celebration! i am pouring you a drink! [pres why does this look like blood?] we like themes n motifs here! #pres rants in tags #anyway mutuals lets make a fan edition of dh3 for shits n gigs