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Dora Rudolfine Richter[3] (16 April 1892 – 26 April 1966) was a German trans woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery. [4]
Dora Richter. To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re telling the stories of transgender women who reshaped history. Below, we recount the life of Dora Richter, one of the first people to receive gender confirmation surgery, and whose life was cut brutally short during the Nazi uprising.
Dora Richter, who worked as a maid at the Institute, became the first recorded case of complete gender affirmation surgery. She was born male in the Erzgebirge region of Germany in 1891 to a relatively poor farming family.
Dora "Dörchen" Richter (1891–1933) was the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender reassignment surgery. [1] She was one of a number of transgender people in the care of sex-research pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld at Berlin's Institute for Sexual Research during the 1920s and early 1930s. She underwent surgical removal of the ...
Dora Rudolfine Richter was a trailblazer in transgender history. Born in Germany, Dora’s story is one of incredible bravery and resilience, supported by pioneering doctors who helped her through her transition. Dora underwent the first documented gender-affirming surgery under the care of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a major advocate for LGBTQ+ ...
Dora Richter was a German transgender woman born in Bohemia on the 16th of April, 1892 — and she is the first known trans woman to have had gender reconstructive surgery at the very dawn of such procedures. Think of her when you hear people try to say that being trans is some very new thing.
The first trans woman to undergo vaginoplasty, Dora Richter, is believed to have been murdered during the raid. Once the Nazis gained power, their persecution of transgender individuals extended beyond the destruction of Hirschfeld’s institute.
A story about trans history, photographs, “the firsts” and assumptions about unknowns. Toni Ebel, Charlotte Charlaque and Dora Richter in Mysterium des Geschlechts (dir. L. Gother, cin. K ...
Domestic workers: Dora “Dörchen” Richter (1891 – 1933?) Dora Richter worked as a housekeeper at Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexology. Here she could present as female whereas she had to use her birth name when working as a waiter in Berlin hotels during the busy summer season to make money.
Hirschfeld’s study and advocacy for trans people was rooted in the belief that sex characteristics and erotic desire were among a variety of biological traits, and that society needed to adapt, not the individual. In 1931, he arranged the first male-to-female genital transformation for Dora Richter.