The Danish Girl and the sexologist: a story of sexual pioneers

He was written out of Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, but doctor and sexual rights campaigner Magnus Hirschfeld has a legacy even the Nazis couldn't destroy

In the spring of 1930, Danish artist Einar Wegener arrived in Berlin for a consultation that he hoped would both save and change his life.

Wegener had spent the previous twenty years dressing as a woman, Lili Elbe. In public, his wife, painter Gerda Gottlieb, introduced Elbe as Wegener's sister . But by 1930 he could not bear his double life any longer. He resolved to commit suicide, even naming a date - May 1.