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579. Analysis

[577 failed to lift the ban... I guess it was too violent. I was too busy on duty today and I didn’t have time to change, so I have to wait for tomorrow]

【Several medical information, followed by homosexual problems】

At 10:00 on May 13, 2021, No. 14 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing, the National Disease Control and Prevention Bureau was officially listed. The establishment of the National Disease Control and Prevention Bureau means that the functions of the disease control agency have changed from simply preventing and controlling diseases to comprehensively maintaining and promoting the health of the whole population. The new agency will undertake five major functions, including formulating infectious disease prevention and control policies.

On May 12, the World Health Organization's Independent Group on Prevention and Response of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response released its latest report. The report shows that by the end of 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to bring US$10 trillion to the world. At least 17,000 medical workers worldwide died from the COVID-19 in 2020. In the past year and a half, at least 150 million people worldwide were infected and more than 3 million died from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the report, the group recommended promoting fair distribution of vaccines, establishing a Global Health Threat Council led by the head of state, and strengthening prevention work to deal with the next crisis.

On May 12, the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Establishing a Long-term Mechanism for Protection, Care and Care Medical Personnel". The "Opinions" said that medical personnel are the backbone of defeating the epidemic and the guardian of people's health and life safety. In order to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, establish a long-term mechanism for protecting, caring and caring for medical personnel, and effectively protecting the rights and interests of medical personnel, the "Opinions" issued guidance opinions from six aspects: ensuring working conditions, maintaining physical and mental health, implementing the benefits and title policies, strengthening humanistic care, creating a safe practice environment, and promoting professional spirit. All localities should conscientiously implement it and attach great importance to the protection, care and care work of medical personnel.

"Sexuality Contemplation" says: "Sex is not a game, it is the source of happiness and the source of ultimate sorrow."

The most important part of the collection of sorrow and joy is the "comrade group". Sex is their "unspeakable" and it is also the reason for them to be locked up in concentration camps.

Data from the German Bundestag showed that from 1933 to 1945, about 100,000 homosexuals were registered by the German police. According to a list of homosexuals and the address list "follow the map", about 15,000 to 20,000 people were imprisoned in concentration camps. The punishment began with castration at the beginning and later death penalty. About 60% of homosexuals were tortured to death. This made homosexuals the highest death rate in concentration camps except for Jews.

The aforementioned roster is called the "Pink List" and is a visitor record of the "Sexuality Institute" in Berlin.

It was originally a valuable medical record for sexologists and medical scientists to conduct sociological investigations and medical research, but it became the hunting list of the ** Party.

The tragedy began late at night at the end of the 19th century. Jewish Magnus Hirschfeld (1868.5.14-1935.5.14), closed the clinic door and walked home.

Hirschfield has multiple identities: philosopher, doctor, sexologist, and pioneer of the "gay movement". He once came out publicly and advocated that "the social differential treatment and legal persecution of the gay community are inhuman and wrong."

When he was about to reach his doorstep, he saw a young German soldier. The latter said helplessly: "I am a deep cabinet."

In Germany at the end of the 19th century, it was very dangerous to talk about "coming out". Article 175 of the German Criminal Law promulgated on May 15, 1871 clearly stipulates that sexual acts of men are criminal acts that should be punished and can be sentenced to up to 6 months in prison.

In 1896, Hirschfield published the manual "How to Explain Men or Women Love the Same Sex". Among them, he asked a question: Why are married men who deceived female teachers "not guilty", but the same-sex couple who love each other must be imprisoned?

In 1897, it was recognized by the sex community as the beginning of the "first gay movement in the world". Hirschfield joined forces with like-minded people to establish the world's first "Scientific Humanitarian Committee". As chairman, Hirschfield submitted a petition to the German government, demanding the abolition of Article 175 of the Criminal Law. "We can academically confirm that comrades are not 'averse'."

More than 3,000 doctors, more than 700 scholars, a large number of highly respected writers and poets, all signed the petition, including celebrities such as Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann.

Hirschfield tried his best to comfort the nervous, cramped guy: "Science is the road to fairness. Soon one day, science will overcome errors, justice will overcome injustice, and human love will overcome human hatred and ignorance."

A few days later, Hirschfield received a letter from the soldiers. It contained his suicide note, saying: "I decided to end my life. When the sun rises again, I am going to get married. The law stipulates that only two people of different genders can unite. I cannot accept it and have no choice. Only death can make everything better."

"He expected me to do more. I hope one day Germany will treat homosexuals more fairly." Hirschfield wrote in his memoir that after this lonely death, he fired his clinic to specialize in sexology.

In 1899, Hirschfield edited and published the "Annual Report on "Intermediateness" as chairman of the "Scientific Humanitarian Committee", and took the lead in proposing a concept that had a profound impact on future generations: "comrade" is the third sex, which is between men and women.

In that era, the recognition of gender between men and women must be equal and cannot be changed. The concept proposed by Hirschfield blurs the boundaries between "physiological gender" between men and women.

The term "third sex" first appeared in Indian religion. There are many descriptions of the "third sex" group in Indian mythology in the 8th century BC. For example, the Book of Brahma records that a "long-haired person who is neither a man nor a woman" appeared in religious rituals.

In order to understand the proportion of homosexual groups in the total German population, Hirschfield designed and completed the first large-scale sexual behavior survey in history in the early 20th century. In 1903, 3,000 students from the Berlin University of Technology participated in the questionnaire and collected 1,756 valid questionnaires. The results showed that heterosexual accounts for 94%, homosexual accounts for 1.5%, and bisexual 4.5%. The following year, he distributed the same questionnaire to 5,721 steel workers, with an effective response rate of 41.6%. The results were similar to those of college students.

"Our survey shows that individual self-gender identity is innate, and is by no means the 'sexual mutation (perversion)' as mentioned earlier. Some people are born with the opposite nature of their physiological gender." Hirschfield interpreted that Socrates, Michelangelo and Shakespeare may be "intermediates".

In the following 10 years, Hirschfield's academic achievements continued: in 1910, "Straight Dress", the first term "Straight Dress" was proposed, and it was distinguished from homosexuals; in 1913, "Male Homosexuality and Female Homosexuality", the term "homosexuality" was widely used; in 1914, "Same Sex", which was hailed as the "encyclopedia" of the gay group; from 1917 to 1919, "Sexual Pathology" (full of 5 volumes).

"Humans have infinite diversity of 'sexuality'." Hirschfield said that there are tens of millions of human sexual behaviors that have been perceived, which shows that "love is as changeable as humans". Based on this, a scientific way should be provided to help "intermediates" achieve themselves and regain social recognition. This should benefit all genders other than binary genders, including lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, etc.

In 1913, Hirschfield joined hands with Iwan Bloch and others to establish the "Sexual Medicine and Eugenics Society" in Berlin, and held a series of academic seminars.

In 1919, he used all his belongings to buy a building and put the door sign of the "Institute of Sexual Wissenschaft". Historical records show that the institute's work includes three aspects: conducting sexology and sociological research, providing clinical services including premarital guidance, sexual health care and other clinical services, as well as medical legal aid.

Researchers, doctors, and comrades from European countries visited the institute to increase their understanding of sex and consult their own sexual relationship problems and sexual dysfunction for free. In just one year of opening, the institute has accumulated nearly 20,000 medical records.

In 1921, the institute expanded the auditorium, libraries and laboratories. It is particularly worth mentioning that the library has collected more than 20,000 volumes of books, more than 5,000 photos, more than 30,000 works of art of various types, and about 40,000 autobiographical materials for those who are "intermediate".

In 1930, the institute created another "world's first": Hirschfield invited gynecologist Ludwig Levy-Lenz and surgeon Erwin Gohrbandt to complete the first gender reset surgery.

The surgeon was named Lili Elbe. The surgery was successfully removed from his male reproductive organs and reconstructed them with his own skin. The surgeon tried to perform an ovarian transplant for him, but it ended in failure. In 1931, Alber underwent a uterine transplant again, hoping to achieve the real "transgender purpose". Unfortunately, he died of a severe rejection reaction after the operation.

This pioneering operation attracted international attention and also attracted the attention of a large number of "intermediate" people. Since then, people have come to the door one after another, hoping to undergo gender reset surgery. Due to technical limitations, the institute could only complete the reset of men to female reproductive organs, including reconstructing *** with ** skin. After the operation, the doctor would ask the doctor to use hormone drugs to make the surgeon more feminine.

But unfortunately, some people who have reset their gender to "female" have difficulty getting a job and making a living. Five women after surgery have become employees of the institute.

With the efforts of Hirschfield, Germany was very tolerant of "intermediate" attitudes toward "intermediates". By the 1920s, gay culture flourished in cities such as Berlin. News came out of the German parliament that it was considering abolishing Article 175 of the Criminal Law.

From 1930 to 1932, Hirschfield began a "global tour". His footprints spread to the United States, Japan, China, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, etc. The medical and scientific circles in various countries praised him as "Einstein of Sexology".

At the Institute's "10th Anniversary of Founding" celebration, the guests all believed that a bolder and better future may begin.

But in 1933, everything came to an abrupt end. When ** came to power, it began to severely suppress the homosexual community. In May of the same year, the Hitler administration ordered the closure of the Institute of Sexology. The party members and soldiers flocked to them. They pushed down the bronze statue of Hirschfield, piled up all the books and materials into mountains, and threw out torches after torches.

The one who burned his collection was all the property of Hirschfield. At that time, Hirschfield happened to be on a tour overseas. He was deported and fled abroad.

It was also during the search that ** saw the medical records of the Institute of Sexology. Those who came to seek help in the past were successively included in the "pink list".

"During World War I, Germany was defeated, and the corpses were like mountains. If there was not enough population, children, and the German nation would last forever, homosexuality must be removed." Under this tyrannical perception, the concentration camp established a special identification system. Each prisoner must wear a triangle stamp, yellow represents Jews, red represents political prisoners, and pink represents homosexuality.

Wherever the soldiers were excited, they would pull out a group of homosexuals in the concentration camp, let them stand in the distance, use the pink triangle as the target, and practice marksmanship. The ** military doctors carried out "human body research", cut the gay men's bodies in a living way, and tried to find their homosexual genes (Gay     gene) in order to cure the "excellent Germanic teenagers" with homosexual tendencies.

In 1935, the ** authorities made a more severe "amendment" to Article 175 of the Criminal Law: the term "violating nature" in "elusion of nature" was cancelled. Kissing or "louding eyes" between same-sexes can be characterized as "elusion" and thus thrown into prison. According to Article 175 of the Criminal Law issued at the same period, the maximum penalty for "serious homosexual sexual prostitution" can be up to 10 years in prison.

After World War II, the German government released Jews but continued to detain gay prisoners. It was not until 2002 that the German government apologized to the persecuted homosexual community.

Hirschfield was unable to return to Germany until his death.

In 1935, he died in Nice, France at the age of 68. Li Xiutang (Li Shiu) who has the dual identities of student and lover, accompanied him through his life. The two met in Shanghai, China in 1931. "I thought that after I was successful in my studies, I went to Hong Kong, China to open a sex clinic. But Hirschfield left and took everything from me." Li Xiutang wrote a memoir.

Although many of Hirschfield's views seem outdated today, it provides people with a way of thinking that broadens people's description and understanding of sexual preferences. This is groundbreaking.

On May 17, 1990, the World Health Assembly decided to delete homosexuality from the disease classification. May 17 later became "International Day Against Homophobia".

In 2001, China also realized the depathologic of "homosexuality". The Chinese Psychiatric Association launched the third edition of the "Chinese Mental Disease Diagnostic Standards" (CCMD-3), which deleted homosexuality from the mental illness classification.

Article 175 of the German Criminal Law was finally abolished 60 years after Hirschfield's death.

In 2011, the German government established the "Magnus Hirschfield German Federal Foundation" to eliminate discrimination against homosexual and transgender groups. "Hirchfield's contribution to fighting for the rights of sexual minorities is recognized. He is one of the founders of research on sexology as an independent discipline, a pioneer in actively fighting for rights for comrades, and a scientist who connects sexology with human nature and rights and fights unremittingly.
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