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Magnus Hirschfeld had a collection of human penises, championed drag, promoted prostitution of young boys and teaching masturbation to chilren and he performed sex change experiments that mutilated and killed his mentally ill patients. In 1931 a man's body rejectd a uterus that Hirschfeld had implanted in him. He should be remembered like Doctor Mengle.
Magnus Hirschfeld was a racist, self hating gay eugenicist who helped create "Gender Affirming Care." TRAs have whitewashed his racist eugenicist beliefs. He continued to preach eugenics when he came to America.
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
"Trans Medicine" hero Hirschfeld’s was anti-black, racist and sexist, supported eugenics and believed that men were generally smarter than women. Hirshchfeld held the common Nazi belief that “primitive peoples” have smaller brain sizes than Aryans. He was racist against Black people in particular.
"What is often ignored is that he was also a passionate campaigner for the sterilisation of those he considered ‘unfit to breed'" - Malcolm Clark
"In 1931 Hirschfeld went to the US to meet Paul Popenoe and Ezra Gosney, fellow champions of sterilisation for the “feeble-minded”. He was greeted “like an old friend…we have studied for 25 years”. Both just happened to be vicious racists and white supremacists.
Hirschfield praised them as being in “the vanguard of improving humanity by sterilising unfit men and women”. Their research was to provide the model for the introduction of the Nazis’ compulsory sterilisation program just two years later in 1933."
"Hirschfeld’s 1908 work, On Sexology, advocates avoiding marrying ‘undesirable types’, from the disabled to those with criminals in their families. "One shrinks from marrying a disabled dwarf or someone whose father is at the penitentiary or the madhouse’, he wrote, ‘and one does so rightly, because only if we marry the healthiest, well-shaped, most intelligent and well-mannered ones, will we help to ennoble the race’."
"He was soon invited to speak throughout America. But Hirschfeld wasn’t just offering sex tips.
He was also meeting with fellow eugenicists. In California, he met up with racists like Paul Popenoe and Ezra Gosney, who, like Hirschfeld, advocated sterilisation for the ‘feeble-minded’. Indeed, they played key roles in creating California’s involuntary-sterilisation laws in 1909, which were later used as models for Nazi Germany’s own harsher sterilisation laws. Hirschfeld praised them for being in ‘the vanguard of improving humanity by sterilising unfit men and women’."
"Hirschfeld’s eugenicist beliefs, and the extent to which they were entwined with the earliest forms of ‘gender-affirming surgery’, have escaped the scrutiny they deserve, perhaps because he is largely now thought of as a victim of the Nazis. Indeed, much has been made of the raid on Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Research on 6 May 1933, and the subsequent book-burning that took place." (Sargeant)
RESOURCES
Magnus Hirschfeld’s Racism (1934)
The dark legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld
https://archive.ph/bRAIs
A dark corner of transgender history
Michael Cook
https://archive.ph/17Ffa
Hirschfeld and Praunheim:
Eugenics and Racism, Today
https://archive.ph/zVrEG
One of the world’s first gay rights activists was racist and sexist. The author of a new book explores how much should it bug us
https://archive.ph/T5A6Y
BOOK
Marhoefer, Laurie. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love.
University of Toronto Press. 2022
AUDIO
The Troubling Racism Of A Gay Rights Icon
https://www.wortfm.org/laurie-marhoefer-racism-and-the-making-of-gay-rights
Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: Sexologist, Student, Empire of Queer Love"
(27:00) "He has moments of distubing racism in his work"
(1:12:40) Hirschfeld theorized that eugenics could be part of "gay liberation."
Racism by Magnus Hirschfeld
"IV. The African race: black, phlegmatic, slack, cunning, slothful, indifferent; greases or oils skin ; rules through caprices."
p.78 Hirshfeld quoting Linnaeus
https://spinster.xyz/objects/0e537bd8-0894-495d-b9e1-3b650bfb6399
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Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love | Department of History | University of Washington
In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student, and after t...
The Unz Review
Magnus Hirschfeld’s <i>Racism</i> (1934)
Back in May, the Scientific American published an article on “The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic.” Having written an...
The dark legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld
A fierce belief in eugenics and gender ideology haunts the legacy of this gay-rights pioneer.
BioEdge
A dark corner of transgender history - BioEdge
The early 20th century physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who was German, Jewish and gay, is widely praised as a transgender pioneer. In 1919 he founded ...
Hirschfeld Eugenics English Flyer
Xtra Magazine
One of the world’s first gay rights activists was racist and sexist. The author of a new book explores how much should it bug us | Xtra Magazine
Laurie Marhoefer’s book on Magnus Hirschfeld looks at the famed German sexologist’s darker side and his relationship with a younger Asian man
PreserveTube
Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: Sexologist, Student, Empire of Queer Love" | PreserveTube
Internet Archive
Magnus Hirschfeld: Racism : Magnus Hirschfeld : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Translation of Magnus Hirschfeld
