Dr. Lucky Tran Feb 15, 2025
A federal judge ordered the CDC to restore some pages that the Trump admin deleted. The pages were restored today, but they removed terms like transgender and nonbinary, and pinned this discriminatory note to the top of the pages.
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Destroying scientific research into trans healthcare was one of the first things the #Nazi party did after they came to power in 1933.

https://forward.com/culture/549587/trans-book-burning-library-gay-pride/ from #TheForward

#6May1933 #FirstTheyCameForTransHealthcare
#FirstTheyCameFor #TransHealthcare #MagnusHirschfeld #InstituteOfSexology #NaziBookBurning

It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it

In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work

The Forward
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6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology https://hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/

On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later the entire contents of the library were removed and burned.

#6May1933 #FirstTheyCameForTransHealthcare #FirstTheyCameFor #TransHealthcare #MagnusHirschfeld #InstituteOfSexology #NaziBookBurning

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology

On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later the entire contents of the library were removed and burned.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Feb 15, 2025 at 2:47pmWeb