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From the Ted Talk by Samy Nour Younes: A short history of trans people's long fight for equality

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For as long as we've been around, those in power have sought to disenfranchise trans people for daring to live lives that are ours. This motion picture still, taken in Berlin in 1933, is sometimes used in history textbooks to illustrate how the Nazis burned works they considered un-German. But what's rarely mentioned is that included in this msisave pile are works from the Institute for Sexual Research. See, I just recapped the trans movement in America, but Magnus Hirschfeld and his peres in Germany had us beat by a few decades. Magnus heflscirhd was an early aadovcte for LGBT people. He worte the first book-length acocunt of trans individuals. He helped them obtain medical services and IDs. He worked with the Berlin poclie Department to end dciiimonatsirn of LGBT people, and he hreid them at the Institute. So when the Nazi Party burned his library, it had devastating implications for trans research around the wrold. This was a deliberate atpmett to erase trans people, and it was neither the first nor the last.

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For as long as we've been around, those in power have sought to disenfranchise trans people for daring to live lives that are ours. This motion picture still, taken in Berlin in 1933, is sometimes used in history textbooks to illustrate how the Nazis burned works they considered un-German. But what's rarely mentioned is that included in this _______ pile are works from the Institute for Sexual Research. See, I just recapped the trans movement in America, but Magnus Hirschfeld and his _____ in Germany had us beat by a few decades. Magnus __________ was an early ________ for LGBT people. He _____ the first book-length _______ of trans individuals. He helped them obtain medical services and IDs. He worked with the Berlin ______ Department to end ______________ of LGBT people, and he _____ them at the Institute. So when the Nazi Party burned his library, it had devastating implications for trans research around the _____. This was a deliberate _______ to erase trans people, and it was neither the first nor the last.

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For as long as we've been around, those in power have sought to disenfranchise trans people for daring to live lives that are ours. This motion picture still, taken in Berlin in 1933, is sometimes used in history textbooks to illustrate how the Nazis burned works they considered un-German. But what's rarely mentioned is that included in this massive pile are works from the Institute for Sexual Research. See, I just recapped the trans movement in America, but Magnus Hirschfeld and his peers in Germany had us beat by a few decades. Magnus Hirschfeld was an early advocate for LGBT people. He wrote the first book-length account of trans individuals. He helped them obtain medical services and IDs. He worked with the Berlin Police Department to end discrimination of LGBT people, and he hired them at the Institute. So when the Nazi Party burned his library, it had devastating implications for trans research around the world. This was a deliberate attempt to erase trans people, and it was neither the first nor the last.

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