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| Region | Germany |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | May 6, 1933 |
| End Date | Sep 10, 1980 |
| Description | During the Nazi regime, transgender people were targeted repeatedly and were de facto criminalised under Paragraphs 175 and 183, which were used to prosecute people for homosexuality or cross-dressing. Previously respected "transvestite passes" which exempted trans people from Paragraph 183 were promptly ignored and revoked. Trans people would also be targeted in the Holocaust although they were often grouped as gay men, leaving the death toll of trans victims unknown. However some trans people could avoid the worst of Nazi persecution provided they were not Jewish and weren't considered homosexual (which was based on the assumption of an attraction to the birth sex they were assigned as). An example includes a transgender lesbian known as R. who was considered to be Aryan, non-homosexual and a good worker by the Nazis and got arrested in 1938 but released two years later under the assumption she would detransition. However she did not and was then forced to undergo conversion therapy until her death in 1943. After the fall of the Nazis, Germany did not grant legal gender recognition until 1980. |
| Sources | https://mjhnyc.org/events/transgender-experiences-in-weimar-and-nazi-germany/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-reveals-how-the-nazis-targeted-transgender-people-180982931/ https://academic.oup.com/past/article/260/1/123/6711458?login=false |
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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Correct end year was 1980.
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| End Date | Sep 10, 2011 | Sep 10, 1980 |
| Description | During the Nazi regime, transgender people were targeted repeatedly and were de facto criminalised under Paragraphs 175 and 183, which were used to prosecute people for homosexuality or cross-dressing. Previously respected "transvestite passes" which exempted trans people from Paragraph 183 were promptly ignored and revoked. Trans people would also be targeted in the Holocaust although they were often grouped as gay men, leaving the death toll of trans victims unknown. However some trans people could avoid the worst of Nazi persecution provided they were not Jewish and weren't considered homosexual (which was based on the assumption of an attraction to the birth sex they were assigned as). An example includes a transgender lesbian known as R. who was considered to be Aryan, non-homosexual and a good worker by the Nazis and got arrested in 1938 but released two years later under the assumption she would detransition. However she did not and was then forced to undergo conversion therapy until her death in 1943. | During the Nazi regime, transgender people were targeted repeatedly and were de facto criminalised under Paragraphs 175 and 183, which were used to prosecute people for homosexuality or cross-dressing. Previously respected "transvestite passes" which exempted trans people from Paragraph 183 were promptly ignored and revoked. Trans people would also be targeted in the Holocaust although they were often grouped as gay men, leaving the death toll of trans victims unknown. However some trans people could avoid the worst of Nazi persecution provided they were not Jewish and weren't considered homosexual (which was based on the assumption of an attraction to the birth sex they were assigned as). An example includes a transgender lesbian known as R. who was considered to be Aryan, non-homosexual and a good worker by the Nazis and got arrested in 1938 but released two years later under the assumption she would detransition. However she did not and was then forced to undergo conversion therapy until her death in 1943. After the fall of the Nazis, Germany did not grant legal gender recognition until 1980. |
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| End Date | Sep 10, 1945 | Sep 10, 2011 |
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| End Date | Jun 5, 1945 | Sep 10, 1945 |
created by DaisyGeekyTrans
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0 | Original entry | |
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| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | May 6, 1933 |
| End Date | Jun 5, 1945 |
| Description | During the Nazi regime, transgender people were targeted repeatedly and were de facto criminalised under Paragraphs 175 and 183, which were used to prosecute people for homosexuality or cross-dressing. Previously respected "transvestite passes" which exempted trans people from Paragraph 183 were promptly ignored and revoked. Trans people would also be targeted in the Holocaust although they were often grouped as gay men, leaving the death toll of trans victims unknown. However some trans people could avoid the worst of Nazi persecution provided they were not Jewish and weren't considered homosexual (which was based on the assumption of an attraction to the birth sex they were assigned as). An example includes a transgender lesbian known as R. who was considered to be Aryan, non-homosexual and a good worker by the Nazis and got arrested in 1938 but released two years later under the assumption she would detransition. However she did not and was then forced to undergo conversion therapy until her death in 1943. |
| Sources | https://mjhnyc.org/events/transgender-experiences-in-weimar-and-nazi-germany/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-reveals-how-the-nazis-targeted-transgender-people-180982931/ https://academic.oup.com/past/article/260/1/123/6711458?login=false |