Luke’s Reviews > The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin > Status Update

To Hirschfeld's old associates, it was becoming a bitter inside joke to see which individuals who'd come to the institute to discuss their gay desires or gender dysphoria had embraced the far right.

"The Nazis packaged the economic instability as the inevitable result of modern chaos—political, cultural, sexual, racial—and in March 1930 their MPs offered a bill to turn interracial sex into a capital offense. It was an unhinged response to a macroeconomic crisis, but desperate voters now gravitated to extremes."

For perspective, in the US, interracial marriage wasn't legalized till 1967.

Institute staffers immediately affirmed Gerd's masculine gender identity [...] but they balked at the teen's request for chest masculinization surgery. [...] Institute medical staff reversed course when Katter returned to the clinic days later having attempted to perform the surgery on themselves, sans aesthetic, with a razor blade.

A Catholic priest told Magnus that over 3[%] of his fellow Catholic clergymen were queer, which the priest believed must make his field the gayest of then all. But a butcher reported that among master butchers and apprentices, the figure was nearly 4[%]. Actors and theater costume designers self-reported at 5[%], as did naval officers...[For] college fraternity brothers and prep school students: just under 6[%].