The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment

The radical days of the Weimar Republic, just before the rise of Nazism.

Kaatharina T., a resident of Berlin in the early 20th century, had a deep voice and masculine appearance, and preferred to wear men’s clothing at home and in public. In 1908, they—there’s no record of which pronoun Katharina preferred—went to visit the sexual reformer and “sexologist” Magnus Hirschfeld, to apply for official documentation that would allow them to wear men’s clothing in public: a “transvestite pass.”

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