Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ Were trans people a key target of the Nazis?
Pink News unwittingly confirms today what I've been saying all along: trans folks weren't even a blip on the murderous Nazi radar. In its article PN manages to muster the names of just 5 "trans" victims. Let's analyse them. 👉

2./ Each tells us something revealing about the LGBTQ+ fantasy of trans persecution by the Nazis. Take Gerd R, a married straight man who liked being sexually humiliated. It's true he was warned about cross-dresssing but it wasn't why he was jailed. Wait till you hear why he was.

3./ Gerd R was arrested after his neighbours grew sick of finding him naked in their communal garbage bins. Arrested under public indecency laws he was rescued from a concentration camp by the intervention of his doctor who pointed out he was heterosexual.
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4./ Queer activists like Zavier Nunn (who criticises JK Rowling for "not taking Nazi oppression of trans seriously") celebrate this exhibitionist. Was he a Nazi victim? Gerd killed himself in a mental institution, where he'd have been sent at the time in the UK or anywhere else.

5./ Then there's Gerd Katter, a supposed transman. It's true she was sent to a camp but she too was released and then granted permission to dress as a man. Queer historian Laurie Marhoefer admits this shows, “police at first reacted harshly but later showed surprising leniency.”

6. / "Surprising leniency". The case of Gerd Katter, Marhoefer says, “demonstrates ...state accommodation of transness”. That doesn’t make quite as powerful a headline as that of her Smithsonian article which was Transgender People Targeted by the Nazis.
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7./ The woeful level of what passes for scholarship among 'queer academics' is underlined by another name cited by Marhoefer in the same article: Toni Simon; whom Pink News has now cited too. Marheofer said she didn't know what happened to Simon but makes it sound ominous....

8./ The fact is while Simon had his transvestite license revoked he was actually arrested for publicly denouncing the Nazis. And though he spent time in camps he was released, became a welder, survived the war and lived until 1979. Surprising leniency?
zagria.blogspot.com/2023/02/toni-s…

9./ Probably not. Like Gerd R, who hid in bins, Simon was heterosexual. That helped. Pink News also cites Fritz Kitzing. Who he? Fritz was a gay transvestite who was arrested for soliciting. Sent to a camp he escaped to London. Where he was arrested for soliciting. FFS Fritz! 🤦‍♂️

10./ Deported to Germany, Fritz was reported (for guess what) and sent to a camp after letters were found in which he denounced Nazi atrocities. The good news is he was then sent to serve in the German army. I'm sure Frtiz hated that! He survived the war.
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11./ Fritz lived until the 1990s, running an antique shop. The thing is tho he never applied for a transvestite license. Was he then really a trans victim? Even if he was...his fate is in such marked contrast to that of millions who were members of the Nazis' key target groups.

12./ The Nazi hatred for Jews was so pathological 80000 Freemasons were murdered- the vast majority non Jews - because the Nazis believed Freemasonry was a front for "Global Jewry". This reminds us when activists claim a Jew was a trans victim we should exercise caution.

13./ I assume that's why Pink News avoided Jewish victims of the Nazis in their list of "trans victims". Not all LGBTQ+ sites are as sensitive. This discussion is often cited to me as proof of trans persecution. Yet..half the victims named are ...Jews. 👉

14./ Of the four victims these so-called experts cite as trans victims, 2 are Jewish and would have been targetted by the killing machine of the regime whether or not they cross-dressed or were "trans"; including this homosexual man, Harry 'Hambo' Heymann. RIP.

15./ Last year I pointed out that the historian Anna Hajkowa who takes part in this video discussion managed to find just 3 trans cases. It was her who cited Harry Hambo as a trans victim but there was something weird about this. 👉

16./ Just 5 years before Hajkova had cited Harry, a Jewish drag performer, as someone who was killed because of his homosexuality. Back then she said he was a victim of homophobia. Now she does what the Nazis wanted: erases homosexuality and Harry's Jewish faith. Disgraceful.

17./ I've never denied there were people whom we'd now call "trans" who were victims of the Nazis. The regime was bloodthirsty and anyone who refused to conform could became a target. That's why last year I acknowledged Liddy Barcroff, named in Pink News now, as a trans victim.

18./ Liddy (Heinrich Habitz) was jailed for homosexual prostitution during the Weimar Republic. For the same crime the Nazis sent him to a concentration camp where he was murdered. However since he wrote a biography 'An experience as a transvestite' let's assume he was trans.

19./ Someone that Pink News doesn't mention is “Sally” Adamson or Arnošt Grunspan who though he was half-Jewish it’s most likely it was his cross-dressing that led to his arrest and murder in a camp. RIP Arnost. Or Sally. No one deserves such a fate.

20./ There are also inspiring stories of trans people who managed, through their indomitable courage and inventiveness to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo and survive to tell the tale. Like Toni Ebel, one of the first to undergo "sex change surgery". That's him on the left.

21./ Toni became a well-regarded artist after the War and was recognized by the East German government as a victim of Persecution. He died in 1961. So what does all this prove? Above all, there is no doubt that non-conformists of any sort were likely to be victims of the Nazis.

22./ Of course this would include people we'd now call trans. BUT...today's trans community does itself no favours by trying to position itself as a priority of the Nazis. If they had been the Nazis would have passed new laws. They loved doing that. They passed 300 against Jews.

23./ The truth is that the handful of examples of trans cases provided by 'queer' historians so far point to something else. A much more confused and patchy response than the brutal strategy of elimination against the Nazis' real targets like the Jews.

24./ So far the mixed fortunes of named trans victims suggest that it was possible to be "trans" and elude persecution. If you were heterosexual, followed the rules on public cross-dressing and avoided prostitution (or hiding in bins) you could hope to survive the brutal regime.

25./ These were not options for key targets of the Nazis like Jews or the disabled who were ruthlessly sought out for elimination. When trans activists describe this truth-telling as 'Holocaust Denial' they do a disservice to all Holocaust victims. Including the few trans ones.