Transvestite pass

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Tranvestite certificates issued to Gerd Katter in 1928. Left was issued by Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft; right was issued by the Berlin Police.

A transvestite pass (‹See Tfd›German: Transvestitenschein) was a doctor's note recognized by the governments of Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, under the support of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, identifying a person as a transvestite. Transvestite at this time referred to all individuals whose gender identity or preferred clothing was discordant to that associated with their assigned sex, and so included both cross-dressing and transgender people.^[1] As gender-confirming surgery was only an emerging practice in the early 20th century, obtaining a Transvestitenschein, along with an official name change, represented the maximum extent to which many trans individuals could transition.^[2]