Cait the Proud Trans Woman on Nostr: Oh, and history. History refutes her utterly. Oger said "it was a bit like 1933". ...

Oh, and history. History refutes her utterly. Oger said "it was a bit like 1933". Well, in 1933 the Nazis held their first public book burning. At Magnus Hirschfeld's sexological institute in Berlin, where he'd conducted decades of research into trans people, coining the term that described us, and doing surgeries and HRT with willing experimental subjects. His findings, by the way, or at least their outcomes, we do know about: they reflected the same findings as recent work has repeatedly shown, that transition is by far the best treatment for trans people to live happy, peaceful lives. But all his research notes were burnt that night, and were never recoverable.

CW: Holocaust specifics:

At this point, Jewish people were being rounded up somewhat, mostly intellectuals and the like. So were trans people. Their official passes (worked out by Hirschfeld with local government) were cancelled. Many were imprisoned, some killed. Those who were imprisoned, if they still remained alive in 1945, were immediately imprisoned in West German prisons, as the law against being trans had been kept on the books by the new BRD. There they stayed for as many as 25 more years.

But right now, that was the extent of repression of both groups. It's not a competition. It's the grim recitation of the priorities of the worst humans we have ever produced. That they targeted trans people is not in any historical doubt. That they targeted Jews isn't either. But the Holocaust does not belong to Jewish people. It was perpetrated upon them, just as it was perpetrated with the goal of eliminating trans people, and disabled people, and Roma people, and Slavs generally...the Nazis had large hearts, able to hold vast numbers of hatreds.

3/4

#trans