29.
It was a place of education Isherwood, Christopher, 18.
By sexual intermediaries we understand manly-formed women Hirschfeld, Transvestites, 215.
Whether erotic transvestism is a rare and exceptionalphenomenon Ibid., 141. 35 My sex life is not so great Ibid., 109.
As a rule I only cross-dress Ibid., 62.
When I put on a woman’s dress Ibid., 29.
I myself, as a child, took every opportunity Ibid., 84.
I cannot report anything of much importance Ibid., 95.
In most of the cases we can trace the urge back to their early childhood Ibid., M3 -
The transvestites that we have come to know Ibid., 141.
The pre-sexological era of modern sex research Haeberle, Birth of Sexology, :5- Hirschfeld was a eugenicist Wolff, Magnus Hirschfeld, 250.
women betray their manly mixture Hirschfeld, Transvestites, 222.
The nineteenth century had cherished a belief Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle (New York: Viking 1990), 8.
Often compared to a flower Patricia Marks, Bicycles, Bangs and Bloomers: The New Woman in the Popular Press (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990), 1.
The New Woman, who appeared as if by magic On the eve of the twentieth century, the French historian Michelle Perrot observed, “The image of the New Woman was widespread in Europe from Vienna to London, from Munich and Heidelberg to Brussels and Paris.” Showalter, Sexual Anarchy, 38.
“ detrimental to the health and morals “ of women Ann Heilman, New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First Wave Feminism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 121.
an avant-garde of male artists, sexual radicals and intellectuals Showalter, Sexual Anarchy, 11. See also Sally Ledger, The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siecle (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997): “The New Woman materialised alongside the decadent and the dandy, and although they had surprisingly little in common, they were repeatedly linked in the flourishing periodical press of the 1890s. The New Woman and the decadent writers both overtly challenged the dominant sexual codes of the Victorian era” (5).
In each person there is a different mixture of manly and womanly substances Hirschfeld, Transvestites, 229.
In a radical departure from earlier medical practices LeVay, Queer Science, 26.
Abraham published an article reporting the surgeries Felix Abraham, “Geni- talumwandlungen an zwei mannlichen Transvestiten” [Genital reassignment on two male transvestites] Zeitschrift fur Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualpolitik 18 (1931): 223—26 in International Journal of Transgenderism 2, no. 1 retrieved from http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtco302.htm 9/20/2001.
Iremember the shock with which Christopher first realised Isherwood, Christopher, 15.
Some of the doctors to whom he went thought him neurotic Norman Haire in Hoyer, Man into Woman, vi.
agreed that Andreas [EinarJ was probably an intermediate sexual type Ibid., vii.
“‘Why have I been sent here?’ he wondered” Ibid., 51. 46 By means of a thousand penetrating questions Ibid., 52.
The first operation, which onlyrepresents a beginning Ibid., 134.
I feel like a bridge-builder Ibid., 250.
All that I desire is nothing less than the last fulfilment Ibid., 275. 48 You must sympathise with me in my desire for maternity Ibid., 280. 48 an abyss of suffering Ibid., 286.
Paralysis of the heart put an end to her short young woman’s life Ibid., 287.
Weeds never die Wolff, Magnus Hirschfeld, 198.
Homosexuals as Speakers in Boys’ Schools Haeberle, Birth of Sexuality, 38.
Some have argued that the institute’s files Benjamin, “Reminiscences.”
“Hirschfeld never returned to Germany after his world tour. The Nazis had come to power. Some of the prominent ones had been patients of Hirschfeld. That is why his records and books and his Institute were destroyed so promptly.” 50 The German academic community became totally absorbed in socialisation theory Author interview with Simon LeVay, Los Angeles, Calif., September 7, 2001.
Looked into a sea effaces This account of Christine Jorgensen’s life is a summary based on her memoir Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiogra phy, published in 1967, and reprinted by Cleis Press in 2000. I also spoke with a few people who had known Jorgensen at various points throughout her life, most notably Joanna Clark (Sister Mary Elizabeth), an early trans- activist who was Jorgensen’s friend and neighbor in Southern California. The first person to serve in the United States armed forces as both a man and a woman; founder of AEGIS, the first and most comprehensive source of AIDS information on the Internet; and author of one of the early legal texts for transpeople—Clark truly deserves to be the subject of a book in her own right.
Dolly and I were surrounded Jorgensen, Christine Jorgensen, 5. 63 Grandma was always my champion Ibid., 16.
A little boy wore trousers Ibid., 8.
“‘Mom,’ I asked, ‘why didn’t God’make us alike?”’ Ibid., 9.
After World War Two, there was the creation of this really ngid gender system Author interview with Stryker.
Mrs. Jorgensen, do you think this is anything for a red-bloodedboy Jorgensen, 14- 15. 64 Instead of assimilating into a group Ibid., 20.
I triedto findsome solace in books Ibid., 25.
time when I would have an important place behind the cameras Ibid. 65 I wondered if’my new associates wouldnotice Ibid., 28.
I wanted to be accepted by the army for two reasons Ibid., 30.
couldn’t help comparing myself with the boys inmy group Ibid., 31.
During the months in the service Ibid., 33.
I awaited a miracle to release me Ibid., 35.
Christine Jorgensen lived with my mother and father Author’s personal communication, Peggy Stockton McClelland, June 7, 2001.
His hips were wide like a woman’s Paul de Kruif, The Male Hormone (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945), 94. for purely scientific
