One of, if not the first major book burning in Nazi Germany occured on May 6th, 1933, at the Institute of Sexology, a foundation known for their advocacy for transgender and homosexual equality.
"Trans people didn't exist in the past."
You literally destroyed our history to perpetuate this myth. We'll never erase your history, just show how it was a lie undeserving of respect.
When you're on the right side of history it's better to leave history intact. It shows what you had to fight. When you're on the wrong side you need it destroyed, so people don't realize how bad you are.
It's quite interesting that academics back then knew homosexuality and transgenderism are completely normal and not aberrations. Even Sigmund Freud also agreed.
It's just that society as a whole has been completely anti-lgbt. I always say it is the relic of homophobic teachings from Abrahamic religions. Ancient Greeks and Romans were completely fine with homosexuality until Christianity became enforced in Europe and elsewhere; then later Islam came along and did the same.
Eh, this is a bit of a half-thruth. Ancient Romans did not really categorize by sexual preference, but by gender roles taken on during sex. They basically had a penetrator-penetrated dichotomy, and taking on a "female" role was definitely shameful for men in their society, and taking on a "male" role as a woman would have been seen as a pretty big transgression, too.
This more or less continued into medieval and early modern times, until homosexuality was understood and categorized as an identity and concept. Together with a complete ignorance towards women's sexuality, this lead to punishment of lesbians being rather rare (non-penetrative sex was basically not recognised as sex), while homosexual men were punished for basically perverting gender roles of sex (also for "forcing" a "female" role on another man), instead for viewing them as having a differing identity.
While religion played a huge role to justify the discrimination of homosexuals, I'd say the root cause is the ideological imperative of maintaining sexuality as something to produce offspring, patriarchical dominance, and having women maintain their identity for sexual gratification and reproduction unless they manage to get into a monastery or similar exceptional roles (and an inherent fear of men to fall out of the male gender identity and being objectified in the same ways). That's why this is also not just an abrahamic phenomenon, but has been pretty widespread in patriarchal societies overall, although often with exceptions for "penetrating" men maintaining their status and power.
To be fair that's mostly a case of "even a broken clock is right twice a day". Psychology was still in its infancy back then and they had so few ideas how to actually help people that insulin shock therapy and lobotomy seemed like good ideas. When looking at it with modern knowledge it's easy to say they already knew when pointing at the bits of decent ideas back then. In reality that's cherry picking between the heaps of wrong and outright dangerous ideas prevalent at the time.
Yes. Look up Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and his gender affirming care in early 20th century Germany. The Berlin "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft" was the world's first trans clinic from 1919 until the Nazis destroyed it 1933.
Watch Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate about Berlin's vibrant trans community and how the rise of the nazis destroyed them.
Iirc he also pioneered reconstructive surgery for World War 1 veterans
Hell yes, fucking slay queen!
She is the goddess of synthesizers and one of the first people I stumbled upon when I was learning about synths: https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg
She was not only a master composer, she also helped with the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first commercial synth.
I had the switched on Bach cassette when I was a kid. I thought it was cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0HAWX1TSA&list=PLLICd7vQi7iGUyErozBAwgcr4F49kxiXY
5 years ago...
5 years ago was 2019, that statement is equally funny as it is horrifying
Five years ago a friend celebrated the 12th anniversary of her vaginoplasty...
If you live under a stone, that might be your first time hearing that trans people exist.
Those are some epic credits
Electronic music pioneer and fuckin LEGEND Wendy Carlos, thank you very much.
It makes me feel icky to type it out... The terms "tranny" and "transvestite" were very common nomenclature in the 90s. In conversation, movies, television. Trans people were often a punchline. And absolutely existed.
Transvestite, I believe, is also a term applied to intersex persons as well, as far as I know.... At least historically.
The condition of being intersex, as far as I'm aware, is a well known condition dating back really far.
Those people truly have no gender (and/or they're both genders? IDK), so "trans" doesn't really apply to them IMO.
intersex people are exactly that - somewhere outside of the binary of the two sexes. Thanks to them we see the clearest example of how gender is simply assigned to a child at birth. Majority of intersex children are forced into one of the binary sexes and then forcefully assigned a gender to match so they can be "normal".
and it honestly comes down to the individual if they see themselves as trans or not, some might see what their parents did to be a forced transition, some might want to detransition from that, some might not
SRS in this context means sexual reassignment surgery. It also has many other meanings.
Supplemental restraint system
So that‘s what that stands for. I always wondered…
Synthesizer Relay System, aka a patch cord.
SRS wow
Yo! I didn’t know she was trans!
As a kid I listened to Walter Carlos' Switched on series, and was the kind of nerd to be a huge fan at the time. Then suddenly Wendy Carlos was continuing Walter's work and claiming she was responsible for everything Walter had done.
I was like ten, and we didn't have the internet or even CDs yet, so it sound like a sibling or marital spat, and eventually the news trickled down they were one and the same.
How long until chuds will claim historical records of trans people are falsified?
Already have seen this. I have seen arguments pointing out what the Nazis did to trans people, the first clinic for trans people, and the research materials on it, get met with replies that it's revisionist, fraudulent, jewish, propaganda.
JK Rowling did that not too long ago. (She didn't call it Jewish, but absolutely called it lies and propaganda that trans people and trans researchers were early targets for the Nazis and victims of the Holocaust.)
I don't say this to obsess over the Harry Potter author, but to point out that you don't have to go cherry picking to find this shit. She's a prominent person using her platform to spread bigotry and misinformation.
why trans people make music and not massive 8ft tall burger
¿Por que no las dos?
I’ve known about this woman for years and been a Tron fan since I wore out the VHS when I was six, and I never realized they were connected.
Yep. Made the Tron score sound like a video arcade, hence the ubiquitous discordances. This piece titled The Light Sailer features the Tron Scherzo (What I think of the Tron Theme, though now the love theme is called that).
The first programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace), the person who laid the foundation for all modern computing was gay (Alan Turing), and the person who revolutionized modern chip design was trans (Lynn Conway). Computer science history is filled with queerness and diversity.
How dare you forget Sophie Wilson, inventor of the ARM chip (which exists in literally every phone pretty much since... 1997?) 😆
She also partakes in Europython (though not sure if she joined this year, but she was there last year, even though I missed both xD), for the Python nerds.
Oh wow I didn't know she was trans, that's super cool
Are They the ones with the sick sideburns playing with a homemade synth in that video from the 70s?
If you mean this video, then yes!
She was ahead of her time
wasn't germany famously fucking around with some shit relevant to this before the whole "hitler arc"
I just wish more people would talk about her music instead of her gender. I know she's bitter or dissatisfied about Switched on Bach, but I still listen to it regularly. There aren't many pieces of instrumental music that can actually make me laugh, but it does. Bach works on synth so well. Largely due to Carlos' efforts.
I was in a record store a few months ago, saw a copy of Switched on Bach, thought it would be interesting, and picked it up. Blew me away. Then I googled it, learned the story and how groundbreaking it was.
Now I've got a few albums of hers from that era. Great stuff.
Yeah I saw some videos of her trying to dress up as a man in some presentation video about an electronic instrument and it just felt so out of place. She's definitely a woman.
This seems nuts but it's true. She had privately transitioned but hadn't yet come out in 1970, and had to make some public appearances wearing awkward fake sideburns (and maybe a short-haired wig?) to pose as a man. More info here on Pink News.
She also saved Panos the wonder child ! (YouTube)
Thank you, if you hadn't posted it, I would have. I was literally just watching this again for the umpteenth time yesterday. One of my favorite videos of all time.
Also, Angela Morley whose best known work these days is the score to the movie that traumatised an entire generation of kids.
My closest friend in grade school (circa 2010) is trans. Was it really that unusual to personally know trans people until recently?
I think a lot of the people currently freaking out about it have been, either individually or collectively, throwing red flags their entire life that say, "I am dangerous to anyone who does not conform to cis-hetero-normative culture," and trans people have wisely avoided them where possible and stayed in the closet where not.
One of my close friends' parents don't know they're trans because they know for a fact how badly they would react. They're conservatives and they're transphobic. It's stopping my friend from transitioning.
Now trans people are in the news and those same transphobic people are wondering where they've all come from and they're reacting in exactly the hostile way that the trans people who avoided them had predicted.
Nope, that's the point.
No
some might say yes
Check out her album Sonic Seasonings sometime. Really amazing atmospheric stuff!
I saw this a while back on TikTok and had to dig up my memory of this. Around 2014 I was reading an article about the person who did some of the VFX for Tron: Legacy. I bookmarked it. At some point the link was dead. Turns out they came out as trans. I don't know if her site redesign/domain name has anything to do with that but it seeing this post always reminds me of that. https://jtnimoy.cc/item.php%3Fhandle=14881671-tron-legacy.html
That shit's like buttah!
Every year, millions of trans folks are detransitioned against their will by the 5 year hard limit.
First Trans surgery was Dora Richter, it was almost 100 years ago.
It’s obviously always been a thing. Folks feeling a need to suppress who they are based on societal norms and standards to include treatment from friends and family really sucks. I do get curious about percentages and wonder how long it will take to reach a maturity level to discuss and study those simply out of curiosity and opportunity to learn. Maybe it’s out there and I’m just not familiar. Trans folks are a subset of the population, I don’t know if it’s 5%, 10% or higher and without a default mode of acceptance it’s probably impossible to know. Homosexuals also make up a minority percentage. The families I know who are most accepting seem to have a much higher percentage makeup than what these figures show. I know a couple whose only two kids are trans. Several families that are 50% homosexual. It makes me wonder about influences related to acceptance or potential genetics that could be at play. We learn a lot from researching topics in unexpected ways and we have so much to learn about the brain, development, and influencing factors.
That wall of machines also allowed her to visit the future, where she stocked up on HRT pills before returning to her own time.
Switched On Ignorance.
Also Lynn Conway, the important engineer behind Mead Conway VLSI
