HLN 1924: “L’insegnante privato sedeva morto su una poltrona in abiti femminili”

Possibly related Fun fact, not following gender norms was illegal in Germany at the time

Okay, that’s not the fun fact, it’s rather sad, but the following is:

By 1908 the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft worked together with law enforcement to allow doctors to prescribe “Transvestitenschein” which was basically a doctor’s note prescribing “cross dressing”

Meaning Germany unofficially recognized trans people more than a 100 years before trans people became society’s hot political topic.

However, back to sad facts, this came to a sad end in the 1930’s when Hitler came to power and the Nazis burned all research the institute had done on sexuality and gender.