TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schillace,Brandy
TI  - The intermediaries: a Weimar story 
SN  - 9781324036319
U1  - 306.760943 23/eng/20250429
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Institut f©ơr Sexualwissenschaft
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Gender-affirming care
KW  - Gender transition
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -