Schillace, Brandy,

The intermediaries : a Weimar story / Brandy Schillace. - First edition. - x, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.

"Set in interwar Germany, 'The Intermediaries' tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's first centre for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, Dr. Magnus Hirshfeld, the institute aided in the first gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacements, acting as a rebellious base of operations in the face of rising prejudice, nationalism and Nazi propaganda. Brandy Schillace introduces readers to Dora Richter, an institute patient whom we follow from early desperate years to gender-affirming care and her right to live as a woman. She offers an example of queer resilience in the face of punishing cultural constraints"--

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Transgender people--History--Germany--20th century.
Transgender people--Social conditions--Germany--20th century.
Gender-affirming care--History--Germany--20th century.
Gender transition--History--Germany--20th century.


Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

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