Transvestite pass

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Facsimile of a transvestite certificate issued in 1928 in Berlin to "Eva Katter" (1910–1995), who later went by the gender-neutral "Gert".^[1][2]

Herbert W. (left) was a transgender friend of Magnus Hirschfeld, and lived for two years in Berlin under his chosen name. This photo is from Hirschfeld's Sexual Intermediates (1922).

A transvestite pass (German: Transvestitenschein) was a doctor's note recognized by the governments of Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic – under the support of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld – identifying a person as a transvestite. Transvestite at this time referred to all individuals whose gender identity and preferred clothing was discordant to that associated with their assigned sex, and so included both crossdressing and transgender people.^[3]

Between 1908 and up until the 1950s, "perhaps dozens" of such passes were granted by the German police.^[4] Mainly given to middle-class, heterosexual, male-to-female transvestites to avoid associations with gay and lesbian culture in Weimar Germany. The certificate said that the individual in question was allowed to wear clothing which corresponded to their gender identity.^[3]

See also[]

• Transgender rights in Germany (since 1980)

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External links[]

• "A German baron now a countess by court decree". Asheville Citizen-Times. 11 August 1912. p. 14.