The separation of humanity into male and female halves belongs to the doctrines and guiding principles that have crossed over into the flesh and blood of every person. Those who occupy themselves uniting opposites such as energy and matter, God and nature, one and all, body and soul, also unmistakably hold fast to the dualism of the sexes and, in fact, the masculine and the feminine are, in themselves, effective realities the duality of which admits no doubt.
But it is a mistake if one imagines that both are two fully separate entities, one from the other; to the contrary, the constantly present merging of both into one, the unending condition of mixing variables that begins with the man’s semen and the woman’s egg, each creating masculine-feminine, hermaphroditic organizations, this monism of the sexes is the core for the genesis and substance of the personality.
The German sexologist, LGBT activist and transgender study pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910.
100 years ago the leading researcher on homosexuals, crossdressers, crossdreamers and transsexuals dismissed simplistic binary models of sex and gender, and debunked the idea that trans people were mentally ill “fetishists” or “masochists”.
Read more about Hirschfeld’s groundbreaking work here!
Photo of Magnus Hirschfeld and friends 1920. Hirschfeld is the one with the glasses, to the right.
