This is the only known photo of the first trans woman to have her gender legally recognized in Switzerland.
In 1914, Adine T. sent a letter to her local police to grant her a pass to dress as she pleased. She petitioned that “I be granted permission to live as a woman, to wear female clothing and to pursue female occupations, and to be considered a woman before the world in all and every respect, since my emotional feelings are totally feminine and I feel unspeakably unhappy in male clothing.”
Her gender was so clear that even the conservative Swiss government had to recognize it. Obtaining permission to live as a woman “is a matter of life and death for me,” Adine added.
111 years ago, it was the first pass of its kind in her nation (although not the first in Europe). When interviewed, Adine described herself similarly to other trans lesbians in the 20th century: “a homosexual woman in a male body.” Source: Matthias Ruoss, "Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine.”
She is wonderfully talented person, and I was one of the first people on her to help her get vetted
Here writings are very well done and worthy of rading.
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Today the Israeli army retreated from some of the areas it once controlled, but what it left behind is beyond description.
The neighborhoods it withdrew from are no longer neighborhoods. No homes, no hospitals, no shops, no streets, no trees, no water wells. Everything is flattened. Nothing remains but rubble, the smell of death, and the bodies of martyrs under the ruins.
Those who survived the bombing now face another kind of death: hunger.
Children are crying from hunger, mothers weep in helplessness, and fathers are crushed by their inability to provide even the basics.
Feeding a single family for just one day now costs over 150 dollars because of the extreme scarcity and the unbearable prices under siege.
The world is watching but doing nothing. Have we become just numbers? Is their silence a quiet approval of our suffering?
But here on Tumblr, there are still people who care. People who feel. People who are still human. You are the hope that wasn’t bombed.
dislike how many mental health posts on here are just “you’ve never done anything wrong in your life ever and they were evil for that”
maybe you did do something wrong. maybe you hurt someone. maybe you have said awful things. maybe you were just as bad as them. maybe. but what matters is that you move on. you have to try. you have to wake up and be kinder. you have to learn and listen and grow. maybe you did do something wrong but that doesn’t mean you have to keep doing that. as long as you are alive, you can change
