Who was Harry Benjamin?

Who was Harry Benjamin?

Harry Benjamin was born German sexologist at the turn of the century, from the late 1800's to the early 1980's. He was working in Europe and talking to people like Magnus Hershfeld who did a lot of research and writing about gay people. Dr. Benjamin was very interested in gender issues as they related to medicine. He ended up moving to America where he spent the rest of his life and where his work with transgender community grew to be quite ground breaking and popular and pioneering, such that his standards of care were adopted as the generally accepted way of dealing with transgenderism medically.