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Part One: John Ronald Brown: The Worst Surgeon Ever

Behind the Bastards

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Magnus Magnus Was an Amazing Guy.

Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research was destroyed by the Nazis. His records were destroyed once Hitler came into power. Hirschfeld helped one of his transgender patients, Elb, transition to a woman. She underwent cosmetic surgery but wanted implanted ovaries and a uterus. Her body rejected the new womb and she died of heart failure in 1931.

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