1920s Berlin was home to the first ever institute that studied trans people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft
Hirschfeld, the head and founder of the institute, also performed the first bottom surgery on a trans woman. So yeah, it was pretty queer place until the Nazi's came to power and burned it all down.
1920s Berlin was home to the first ever institute that studied trans people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft Hirschfeld, the head and founder of the institute, also performed the first bottom surgery on a trans woman. So yeah, it was pretty queer place until the Nazi's came to power and burned it all down.