Jews and Transgenderism.

Magnus Hirschfeld was a German Jew who is considered the Father of Transgenderism, and campaigned for the normalisation of transsexualism, and its declassification as a mental disorder.

In 1931, Hirschfeld worked with 2 other Jewish physicians Dr. Levy-Lenz, and Dr. Felix Abraham to perform the first complete male to female sexual reassignment surgery on Lile Elbe; she later died from complications from a uterus transplant.

In 1965, another German Jewish Psychiatrist John F. Oliven coined the term transgenderism in his reference work, Sexual Hygiene and Pathology.

Their work would be influential for other researchers and their work, most notably John Money and his ideas that gender was learned rather than an innate biological phenomena.

Money's most famous case was the sex reassignment of David Reimer.

In 1966, a botched circumcision left eight-month-old David Reimer without a penis. Money persuaded the baby's parents that sex reassignment surgery would be in Reimer's best interest. At the age of 22 months, Bruce underwent an orchidectomy, in which his testicles were surgically removed. He was reassigned to be raised as female and given the name Brenda. Money further recommended hormone treatment to which the parents agreed, Money then recommended a surgical procedure to create an artificial vagina, which the parents refused. Money published a number of papers reporting the reassignment as successful.

In 2000, David and his twin brother (Brian) alleged that Money forced the twins to rehearse sexual acts involving "thrusting movements", with David playing the bottom role. He said as a child, Money forced him go "down on all fours" with his brother, Brian Reimer, "up behind his butt" with "his crotch against" his "buttocks", and that Money forced David to have his "legs spread" with Brian on top. Money also forced the children to take their "clothes off" and engage in "genital inspections". On at "least one occasion", Money reportedly took photographs of the two children doing these activities. Money's rationale for these various treatments was his belief that "childhood 'sexual rehearsal play'" was important for a "healthy adult gender identity".

Reimer had experienced the visits to Baltimore as traumatic, and when Money started pressuring the family to bring him in for surgery during which a vagina would be constructed, the family discontinued the follow-up visits. From 22 months into his teenaged years, Reimer urinated through a hole that surgeons had placed in the abdomen. Estrogen was given during adolescence to induce breast development. Having no contact with the family once the visits were discontinued, John Money published nothing further about the case.

For several years, Money reported on Reimer's progress as the "John/Joan case", describing apparently successful female gender development and using this case to support the feasibility of sex reassignment and surgical reconstruction even in non-intersex cases. Money wrote, "The child's behavior is so clearly that of an active little girl and so different from the boyish ways of her twin brother." Notes by a former student at Money's lab state that, during the follow-up visits, which occurred only once a year, Reimer's parents routinely lied to lab staff about the success of the procedure. The twin brother, Brian, later developed schizophrenia.

On July 1, 2002, Brian was found dead from an overdose of antidepressants. On May 4, 2004, after suffering years of severe depression, financial instability, and marital troubles, David committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a sawed-off shotgun at the age of 38. Reimer's parents have stated that Money's methodology was responsible for the deaths of both of their sons.

Money claimed that media response to the exposé was due to right-wing media bias and "the antifeminist movement".

Money also held the view that affectional pedophilia is caused by a surplus of parental love that became erotic, and is not a behavioral disorder. Rather, he took the position that heterosexuality is another example of a societal and therefore superficial, ideological concept.

He received the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 2002 from the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research.

Here is David Reimer before he killed himself, saying he would slit his throat before ever going back to being Brenda.

The suicidal behavior and suicide attempt rates are reported to be significantly high among transgender persons compared to general population across the countries. 31% of transgender persons in India end their life by committing suicide, and 50% of them have attempted for suicide at least once before their 20th birthday. 41% of the transgender persons in the United States attempt for suicide at least once in their life. In San Francisco, the prevalence of attempted suicide among transgender persons is 32%, among young age (<25 years) it is 50%. Fifty percent of transgender persons in Australia have attempted suicide at least once in their lives. In England, 48% of the transgender young people had attempted suicide at least once in their lives. The prevalence of suicide remains high among transgender persons irrespective of disclosing their transgender status to others and undergoing sex reassignment surgery.