Q 01/05

To which city did Christine Jorgensen travel for her gender-affirming surgery in the early 1950s?

A) Copenhagen

B) Stockholm

C) Zurich

D) Amsterdam

Answer · why

A) Copenhagen

Christine Jorgensen had her surgeries in Copenhagen in 1951-52 under endocrinologist Christian Hamburger; the US Army had drafted her in 1945, which i...

Q 02/05

Which word completes the 1952 Daily News headline on Christine Jorgensen, "Ex-GI Becomes ___ Beauty"?

A) Bronx

B) Brooklyn

C) Broadway

D) Blonde

Answer · why

D) Blonde

The New York Daily News front page of 1 December 1952 read "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty"; the story broke while Jorgensen was abroad and made her a ce...

Q 03/05

In which German city did Lili Elbe die after her final surgery?

A) Dresden

B) Munich

C) Hamburg

D) Leipzig

Answer · why

A) Dresden

Lili Elbe's later operations were performed by Kurt Warnekros at the Dresden Municipal Women's Clinic; she died there of complications weeks after a u...

Q 04/05

Which German physician founded the Institute for Sexual Science in 1919?

A) Sigmund Freud

B) Richard von Krafft-Ebing

C) Magnus Hirschfeld

D) Alfred Kinsey

Answer · why

C) Magnus Hirschfeld

His institute offered some of the world's first gender-affirming medical care, including surgery, at a time when nowhere else would.

Q 05/05

In which city's Opernplatz did Nazi students burn the Institute for Sexual Science's library in May 1933?

A) Berlin

B) Hamburg

C) Vienna

D) Munich

Answer · why

A) Berlin

Nazi students looted the institute on 6 May 1933 and burned its library four days later on Berlin's Opernplatz (now Bebelplatz); the photographs becam...