German trans pioneer Dora Richter was BOTD in 1892. Born in Siefen in Bavaria (at the time part of the German Empire) to a poor farming family, she was assigned male at birth. Identifying as female from an early age, she reputedly tried to remove her penis with a tourniquet when she was six, and was permitted by her parents to live as a girl. After training as a baker, she moved to Leipzig and joined a travelling theatre troupe. As World War One broke out, she was drafted into the German Army, but was discharged after two weeks. She returned to her hometown, where a friend told her about the work of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research). She moved to Berlin, supporting herself by working in hotels (where she presented as a man), though was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned for presenting as female in public. At some point she met Hirschfeld (who nicknamed her “Dorchen”), eventually working as a maid at the Institute where she was able to live openly as a woman and meet other trans people. In 1922, she underwent surgery to have her testicles removed, followed by a penectomy and vaginoplasty in 1931. She is thought to be the first documented case of a trans woman successfully completing gender reassignment surgery. By late 1931, she was working as a chef at Restaurant Kempinski in Berlin. She appeared briefly in the 1933 silent-film documentary Mysterium des Geschlechtes (Mystery of Sex). With the rise of the Nazi Party, Hirschfeld’s Institute was destroyed and Hirschfeld was forced into exile. Richter returned to her hometown (now renamed Ryžovna and part of Czechoslovakia) and opened a restaurant. In 1934, she was granted a legal name change by the Czech government. She lived in Ryžovna until 1946, when ethnic Germans were expelled from Czech territory, and moved to Allersberg in West Germany, living there until her death in 1966 aged 74. She was played by trans actress Tima die Göttliche (Tima the Divine) in Der Einstein des Sex (The Einstein of Sex), Rosa von Praunheim‘s 1999 biopic about Hirschfield.