Transsexualitäten vor 1980 in Deutschland – Zerstrittene Ärzte und ein Fluchtpunkt in Afrika
DOI: 10.61387/sexuologie.2024.34.32
Autoren
Florian G. Mildenberger
Abstract
“Transsexuality” as a diagnosis and concept is a relatively new approach that only began to take shape in the 1950s. For decades, psychiatrists, analysts, surgeons, sexologists and endocrinologists struggled for the prerogative of interpretation, with the patients themselves seeking and finding their own paths to happiness. A clinic in Morocco played a key role in this. When doctors in the USA and Germany finally agreed on a standardized approach in the 1970s, this was primarily based on the preservation of the two-gender system. The Transsexuals Act of 1980 (TSG) also contributed to this. However, the interests of transsexuals themselves had long since shifted.
Keywords
Transsexuality, Transvestitism, Gender assignment surgery, Sexual science, Endocrinology, Harry Benjamin, Volkmar Sigusch, Georges Burou
Metadaten
Veröffentlicht in: Sexuologie. Zeitschrift für Sexualmedizin, Sexualtherapie und Sexualwissenschaft. Band 31 • Jahr 2024 • Heft 3-4, Seiten 189-194