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

"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.

Berlin's underworld was no afterthought; it was its essence, built brick by brick into its cityscape.

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[%].