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She is the amerikkkan supremacists that pushed fake news about trans people in China by the way
The GDR was there albeit still early days, but they had already had state funded gender surgeries, it's where Cuba sent their doctors in the 80s to learn how to perform them and where they got their medical texts on the topic.
I'm working backwards because I'm remembering from Leslie Feinbergs excellent (and free) book on LGBT stuff in Cuba, where she mentions it. But the book is more focused on Cuba than the GDR.
Totally cool, if you can happen to find any sources on the DDR support of trans surgeries please post them thanks
I might be misrembering my sources, because I did a quick search through the book I mentioned, where the first SRS was done in Cuba in 1988, but it doesn't say where the doctors trained. It does say they got all their books on sexual health from the GDR. I might have read it in another source.
https://www.berlin.de/sen/lads/_assets/schwerpunkte/lsbti/materialien/schriftenreihe/doku37_auf-nach-casablanca_bf.pdf
Before that some trans people petitioned the health ministry individually. At least in one case a woman got a surgery and in another case a surgery got approved but the surgeon refused because the patient hadn't threatened to commit suicide.