Transgender History: Timeline of Significant Events, Transsexual History

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1907
Harry Benjamin Meets Magnus Hirschfeld
1910
Magnus Hirschfeld coins the term “transvestite”
1919
Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Institute for Sexology in Berlin, Germany, which becomes the first clinic to serve transgendered people on a regular basis.
1920
Jonathan Gilbert publishes “Homosexuality and Its Treatment” the story of “H”, Dr. Alan Hart’s 1917 FTM transition
1923
Magnus Hirschfeld coins the term “transsexual”
1931
“Genital Reassignment of Two Male Transvestites”, is published by Felix Abraham, M.D.
1932
Harry Benjamin arranges a speaking tour for Magnus Hirschfeld in the United States.
1932
Man Into Woman, the story of Lili Elbe’s life, MTF transition, and Sex Reassignment Surgery is published.
1933
The Institute for Sexology is raided, shut down, and its records destroyed by the Nazis. Physicians and researchers involved in the clinic flee Germany. Some, unable to escape, commit suicide in the coming years. Magnus Hirschfeld dies in 1935, an exile in Paris.

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