Rowling Isn't Denying Holocaust. She Just Pointed Out That Burning Of Transgender Health Books Is A Lie

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Um, the chorus of Agitated??? Who gave them the fucking right????

Beautiful, gorgeous, I want it permanently etched into my brain.

muse rly was spitting fire when they did a rock/dubstep remix of the laws of thermodynamics and said “an economy based on endless growth is unsustainable” *beat drop*

Been reading a ton of old Muse interviews and news articles (shout out to Musewiki), and some of the ideas and circumstances that spawned their songs are such bizarre surprise twists. The self-explanatory backstories aside (see: classical music nerd Matt, Origin of Symmetry and shrooms), you also have these gems:

Wanted to make something that sounds like the Strokes: got Starlight instead

Wanted something like Billie Jean: Time Is Running Out

Oh no my guitar broke, guess I'll just yell that part instead: Muscle Museum

Matt goes on holiday at a tropical island paradise: Megalomania

My hometown sucks: Falling Down

Actually, I'm really homesick: Something Human

Dom had a random funky James Brown beat lying around: Citizen Erased

Matt poking fun at his own speech impediment: Propaganda

Really upsetting breakup: Neutron Star Collision

9/11 was stressful for everyone: Dead Star, In Your World

The recession was a Very Bad Thing: Animals

Let's go clubbing in New York: Supermassive Black Hole

A guitar riff so hard it's played by Chris on bass instead: Hysteria

Dehydrated Matt starts hallucinating: Micro Cuts

The sounds every baby makes ever when learning to talk: Madness

Citizen Erased, now with more apocalypse: The Globalist

Matt listens to his dad's old band: Knights of Cydonia

That riff is too redneck, 16 years later: Psycho

What if dubstep but analog: The 2nd Law: Unsustainable

What if heavy metal but piano: Space Dementia

What if surf rock but homicidal: Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses edit)

Our songs are too negative, let's be inspirational for once: Invincible

Hey, technology isn't that bad: the entirety of Simulation Theory

Okay, I think I'm gonna try and put out some super rough demos of one of the songs I've been writing in the next week or two, just enough so the ✨️vibe✨️ gets across.

I can't play drums, so the drums will be non-existent or done electronically, so if they sound bad, I'm sorry.

Brief synopsis of the lyrical content of each one:

Well Deserved-gods either incompetent or cruel wtf ft. Gdim min7 chord and plagal (amen) cadences.

Endlessly-I love you but am too scared to say anything ft. Ambiguous key signature and maj7 chord

Control-Corrupt government is overthrown ft. Triplets and a guitar solo (hopefully lol)

Hopefully this will encourage me to actually finish one fully!