Notes from TERF island

[elisi]

TERF-to-fascist pipeline still in full swing:

J.K. Rowling Insinuates Nazis Did Not Burn Trans Books

ETA: A couple of links:

Scientific American: The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
(You might need to give them your email in order to read the article.)

From the Holocause Encyclopedia: Magnus Hirschfeld and his Institute for Sexual Science

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And here, have a petition:

Reverse the Privatisation of the National Health Service (NHS)

Comments

[shadowkat]

Did Trans books even exist back then? And how the hell does she even know?

[elisi]

In short: The Nazi book burnings set trans studies back *decades* (although it could be argued that we are only now getting back to where we were a century ago, which is deeply depressing). You can find a good article here: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hirschfeld-2

And how the hell does she even know?
Oh she knows nothing, and parades her ignorance.

[shadowkat]

Sigh. I think JLR kind of went nuts when she got famous? It's made it kind of hard to care about anything she says or read anything she writes any longer. (Got rid of my Harry Potter books and DVDs ages ago for lack of space more than anything else.)

I admittedly know nothing about the history of trans. Although not at all surprised that the Nazi's burned books about them, they burned pretty much everything that didn't promote their own fascist ego-centric world view and trans like homosexual would go against that. I am surprised that people published transgender works that far back - that's kind of reassuring in a way, I honestly didn't think people were all that open-minded back then.

Thanks for the links and references.

[elisi]

Sigh. I think JLR kind of went nuts when she got famous?
Yeah, fame is not easy. Also she got radicalised online (you can literally follow the steps when you go back), and is too famous for anyone to talk her out of it...

It's made it kind of hard to care about anything she says or read anything she writes any longer. (Got rid of my Harry Potter books and DVDs ages ago for lack of space more than anything else.)
Yeah, it's shame. She could do a lot of good, but she has chosen a different path.

I admittedly know nothing about the history of trans.
It's not terribly well-known unless you are familiar with the community.

Although not at all surprised that the Nazi's burned books about them, they burned pretty much everything that didn't promote their own fascist ego-centric world view and trans like homosexual would go against that.
Totally. Just look at how right-wingers these days treat trans people...

I am surprised that people published transgender works that far back - that's kind of reassuring in a way, I honestly didn't think people were all that open-minded back then.
I like it when history is better than we thought. And of course if you go much further back, and look up different ancient cultures, they were much more broad-minded.

Thanks for the links and references.
You're welcome! And I added links to the post also, thank you for making me think of that.

[kazzy_cee]

J K Rowling *eyeroll*

Petition signed :)

[elisi]

J K Rowling *eyeroll*
Accurate.

Petition signed :)
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