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Author Brandy Scillace recounts Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute and pioneering transgender patient Dora Richter
Summary
Brandy Scillace described the Institute for Sexual Science founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, its services for sexual- and gender-diverse people, the trail of community and science it fostered, and the life of Dora Richter, a patient and later staff member who lived publicly as a woman.
At a Missoula Public Library talk, author and historian Brandy Scillace recounted the work of Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science in early 20th-century Germany and told the life story of Dora Richter, one of the institute’s best-documented patients.
Scillace described the institute, opened in 1918 in Berlin, as a hub of counseling, medical treatment, community education and social support. She said the institute offered counseling, job help, educational courses, a movie room, community dining and balls, and that it performed early forms of gender-affirming surgery and hormone…
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