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Reed Erickson (1917–1992)

Excerpts from the podcast Making Gay History, S04E07: Reed Erickson.

“He was really accepted in society, both for his relationships with women and his transition, which is really interesting when you think about the 1960s. There were very few people who could so openly and publicly transition, let alone maintain multiple marriages.”

“The influence of the Erickson Educational Foundation cannot be stressed enough. We today would not have trans health care, period, without the funding and the information provided by the Erickson Educational Foundation.”

“It was the first organisation in the world that actually provided support and information to trans people, both through its newsletters and publications as well as an in-person office where people could call or drop in to receive information.”

“Essentially, the framework that trans rights organisations use today in terms of collecting resources by area and distributing them to trans people in need, is based off the work of the Erickson Educational Foundation. So without that, the modern trans movement as we know it would not exist.”

Trans history involves a fabric of people across generations and cultures. Many trans stories have been erased, particularly trans male contributions, in favour of the myth that Stonewall rioting was the single galvanising event responsible for all progress.

Remember:

Trans men have always existed, and have always been involved in the fight for trans rights.

Stonewall was vitally important, but LGBT+ activism existed before then, too. To think otherwise is to erase the hard work done by the full spectrum of LGBT+ people.

Erasing trans male history further isolates modern-day trans men, and perpetuates the myth that we have never been involved with our own communities. Erasing cis gay and lesbian history perpetuates the myth that our communities have never overlapped, or acted as allies to one another. If you’re passionate about Stonewall, for example, I suggest you educate yourself about Stormé DeLarverie, AKA “the gay community’s Rosa Parks”. She instigated the uprising.

There is not one single person, or one single event, which is responsible for all progress.

This surprise and excitement warms my heart! But also makes me kinda depressed! Because, if our community actually knew its history, this wouldn’t be shocking at all!

I love helping people connect with our history, and I love reminding people that trans men have always been here, but it depresses me that such an effort is necessary. Imagine what things would be like if the true timeline of trans activism was realised. Imagine how many transmasculine lives would be improved, and even saved, if we weren’t constantly being sent the message that we are irrelevant to progress and history.

Hey yeah, if people could reblog this, I’d be really fucking thankful.

Remember…

Trans men have always been around.

Trans men have always contributed to progress.

Trans men are not a footnote.

If you think trans women were the only ones fighting for trans lives, you don’t know your history. Additionally, Erickson is an exception: many trans men throughout history have been persecuted, impoverished, harassed, and assaulted. Very few trans people have been shielded from difficulty in the same way Erickson was.

Yes, I’m so glad to see people talking about Erickson! He’s such a crucial part of our past. I’d like to add a few more details, both on Erickson and earlier transmasculine history. (Historical note: many of the primary sources in the next few paragraphs use the term “transvestite.” Please recognize that language has evolved significantly over the past 100 years, and what is today a pejorative term began as a word that trans people identified with and built community around).

Erickson was able to fund medical research of transition after inheriting his father’s highly successful lead-smelting company, Schuylkill Industries, in 1962. He began his transition immediately after receiving this inheritance, and reached out to Dr. Harry Benjamin in 1963 for medical care. In the following years, Erickson both directly funded Benjamin’s research and provided funding for research programs at major universities, including UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford, that would focus on the study of trans health. Furthermore, he provided critical funding for the National Transsexual Counseling Unit (NTCU), an organization that fielded letters from around the world, provided walk-in counseling, and performed on-the-street outreach work. His interest in the NTCU sparked from discussions with Dr. Benjamin, who was directly connected to the trans scene at NTCU’s San Francisco headquarters.

Dr. Benjamin actually studied trans healthcare under the man who coined much of the language and conceptualization of trans identity that we use today: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. In 1911(!), Hirschfeld defined der Transvestit (the transvestite) as any individual “faced with the strong drive to live in the clothing of that sex that does not belong to the relative build of the body.” He pulled the word from the latin words trans, meaning opposite, and vestis, meaning clothing. His recommended treatment for this “drive,” as he called it? To aid the patient in presenting as the gender they understood themselves as– a radical departure from existing “treatments” which aimed to shunt the trans patient back into their birth sex, Hirschfeld’s approach centered the happiness and comfort of his trans patients. As he describes it in The Transvestites:

Now, as a historian of trans life in the early 20th century, I do want to contest Making Gay History’s argument that the EEF was “the first organization in the world” to provide support for trans people in the form of newsletters and in-person consultations. While it was certainly one of the earliest organizations of this nature in the U.S., the trans community is much older– and geographically speaking, much broader– than this.

There were multiple trans-inclusive and even trans-centered magazines in Europe through the 1920s, including Die Freundin, Garconne, and Das Dritte Geschlecht, to name a few. Weimar-era Berlin alone had a thriving trans community: der Internationaler Transvestiten-Bund (International League of Transvestites) was a prominent trans-rights activist organization, and it was common to see ads for trans social clubs in the gay magazines of the time. See for example, the weekly meetings held at der Zauberflöte (the Magic Flute, a gay bar) for “women living as men,” or the Transvestiten-Gruppe (transvestite’s group) lead by the transmasculine lesbian bar-owner Lotte/Lothar Hahm).

As for more medically-focused support, Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for the Study of Sexuality) provided jobs and therapy to trans people from 1919-1933, and conducted medical research that was foundational to developing the hormone therapy and surgical techniques used today. Unfortunately, large swaths of this research was lost when Hirschfeld’s institute was burned by the Nazis, primarily due to Hirschfeld himself being both a Jewish man and a staunch civil rights activist for both gay and trans communities. 

I recognize that I’ve veered away from Erickson himself a bit, but I really want to showcase how far back the trans past stretches– even the pieces of history I’ve centered on today have focused on Western Europe in the 20th c, when the truth is that there is evidence of trans life stretching back thousands of years, across many other parts of the world (Southeast Asia comes to mind, as do the Cree and Ojibwe tribes of North America; honestly, anywhere you look, you’ll find trans people). I also send you one-thousand heart emojis for your specific focus on trans men, as too often I see our stories sidelined.

Sources:

Die Freundin. April 9, 1930.

Hirschfeld, Magnus. Transvestites, trans. Michael Lombardi-Nash (New York: Prometheus Books, 1991): 124-125.

Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution. (New York: Seal Press, 2017): 56, 63-64, 100-105. (note: in my opinion, this book serves largely as a history of white trans women in America. however, you can find some useful leads on trans men if you’re willing to dig).

Recommended reading for more transmasculine history:

Hirschfeld, Magnus. The Sexual History of the World War. trans. Andreas Gaspar et al. (New York: Falstaff Press, 1937). See chapter 6.

Skidmore, Emily. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the End of the 20th Century. (New York: NYU Press, 2017).

Smith, Brice. Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men. (Oakland: Transgress Press, 2018).

Sullivan, Louis. From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland. (New York: Alyson Books, 1990)

Plus a long list of books written about FTM experience, by transmasc authors. Mostly memoirs, but there’s a few historical pieces in there too. I’m also gonna throw in a translation I did of an magazine article on trans men in history…. written in 1930! It’s kinda sad, but a really interesting read (note: I preserved all pronouns exactly as they were presented in the original German)

Oh my god!! Please don’t apologise for one word of this wonderful update!! Thank you so much for educating me more about my own community!! I hope you are having a fantastic day!!

Let’s talk about this

She was serving

me: *lies down*

things: *continue to happen*

me: *lieS DOWN HARDER*

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR SEVEN YEARS

DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TO ?????

That last fatal scream tho

THE TERROR IN HIS SCREAM OH GOSH

i’m crying

WAAA-

I will always reblog this on the off chance some other poor soul has been searching for it

IT’S BACK

HOYL SHIT ITS B A CK

If there comes a day that I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.

LOOOL

Always

weekends dont mean anything anymore. the weekend has died. now it’s just TIME  with no DIVISONS except the FUCKING day-night cycle. intolerable

time has always been a lie but it is a particularly flimsy lie under the current circumstances

OH MY GOD

lego star wars is AMAZING

Why does every fantasy series gotta have a hot woman-only group like “Sisterhood Of Summer Spies” or “Ladies Of The Twilight Ball” or “Women Warriors Of The Waters” and never a himbo-only group like “Blue Rose Brotherhood” or “Manwhores Of The Realm” or “Bastard Sword Bastards”

Their NAME is the Fellowship of the Ring

The goal is not to meet neruotypical life milestones and ideas of independence. The goal is to have a life where you are happy and have the support you need.

butches can have 10 cents to their name n still get mad when u don’t let them buy shit for u

jeff bezos being set to become the world's first trillionaire because of everyone online shopping during lockdown

i think this point is important too. it's not just online shopping.

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In addition, a huge portion of Amazon's revenue stream is from Amazon Web Services, which hosts 34% of all cloud based internet services.

Source:

The top 10 clients of AWS are (based on EC2 monthly spend):

Netflix: $19 million

Twitch: $15 million

LinkedIn: $13 million

Facebook: $11 million

Turner Broadcasting: $10 million

BBC: $9 million

Baidu: $9 million

ESPN: $8 million

Adobe: $8 million

Twitter: $7 million 

Source:

In short, boycotting Bezos is damn near impossible without boycotting other huge companies as well.

did you know there are bisexual flowers and they’re perfect

it says so right there in my bio textbook i would never lie to you 

perfect (bisexual)

reblog if you are a perfect bisexual, support perfect bisexuals, or just really love flowers

That’s what I call justice

WHOOP THERE IT IS

There is something monumental that the OP is leaving out.

Most of these “billionaires” that are “stealing” “”“"Chinese”“”“” art, AREN’T doing that. They are doing so on favor of the CCP to steal Tibetan art so it can be destroyed.

There’s been a long standing string of *Tibetan art goes on auction* and some unknown man from China in a suit and glasses out bids the fuck out of everyone else, gets the art, and the art is never seen again.

Why is this happening? The CCP actively tries to destroy Tibetan culture, to deny it’s existence and weaken it’s claim to the Tibetan Plateau to make it’s active military occupation look more “justified”.

Actual Tibetan refugees, including the mother of the Dalai Lama during the beginning of the military occupation WILLINGLY gave away prized Tibetan and Buddhist historical artifacts and antiquities because they knew the PLA had orders to confiscate them for destruction.

It’s incredibly frustrating to see “”“”“woke”“”“” Twitter and Tumblr actively shilling for the CCP in their effort to undermine and destroy Tibetan culture and spread news that only further shoves the Tibetan Genocide from the records, especially when I’ve spoken with western Tibetan Culture scholars, and seen all the art and culture that the CCP has had destroyed or has gone missing over the past 50 years.

It’s sick and if you support China “buying” their art back, you’re a POS.

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this is really pretty!

Ok, I’ll bite. What’s capitalism?

capitalism is the generally ritualistic practice of eating the flesh of one’s own species

No, that’s cannibalism. Capitalism is the scientific name of the plant you smoke when you want to relax

No, that’s cannabis. Capitalism is an electronic handheld device that’s used for doing math.

No, that’s a calculator. Capitalism is fried squid, often served whole or in rings.

No, that’s calamari. Capitalism is a genus of theropod from Algeria that lived during the mid-Cretaceous Period. 

No, thats a Carcharodontosaurus. Capitalism is the science or practice of drawing maps.

No, that’s cartography. Capitalism is a semiaquatic South American mammal.

No, that’s a Capybara. Capitalism was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.

No that’s the Cretaceous period. Capitalism was one of the female leaders of Ancient Egypt.