Mastodawn

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

I really don't know how to keep saying this so cis people understand.

The Nazis in 1933 came for trans people. They burned our libraries to the ground. They raided and bombed our hospitals. They declared our existence illegal. And then they put us in concentration camps and gassed us.

The Nazis in 2025 came for trans people. They're burning our books. They're raiding and bombing our hospitals. They're declaring our existence illegal. And they're building concentration camps.

There's no fucking nuance here. There's no metaphor to be found. There's no allegory. There's no need to draw "similarities" between the Nazis then and the Nazis now, because it's the same people doing the same shit for the same reasons. It's not "similar". It's the same fucking thing.

And if you can't see that, if you've had blinders on for the last 92+ years, I just don't know how to fucking help you with that. If you think the Nazi attacks on trans people are somehow "recent", blame a Nazi, because Nazis are the reason you think that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft - Wikipedia

Zoe Mar 11, 2025

@Lana I don't think they want to acknowledge that the nazis tried the same thing, because then they would admit that it didn't/won't work.

Martijn van Dijk Mar 24, 2025

@Lana @ekg publicly admitting that they’re literally nazis is something they don’t want to do yet. The hoods are not completely off yet.

Zoe Mar 24, 2025

@martijn @Lana The nazis tried to hide it till they died, this lot won't be different.

Brahms Apr 15, 2025

@martijn @Lana @ekg dunno, elmo literally doing the hitler salute was kinda giving it away - beside the obvious nazi shit they were doing

but maybe I am biased as a german (even ppl using germany flags are kinda sus here)

Zoe Apr 15, 2025

@brahms @martijn @Lana the nazis pretended they did nothing wrong till they died, this lot will do the same.

They will never acknowledge that they broke social norms, as to them that would be the same as social suicide.

These people believe peoples value, including their own, is tied to their performance in the social theatre.

Which is why they want to eliminate the ones that fail to perform to the norm, as they have no value.

David P Mar 12, 2025

First image:

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social 19h

When Hitler started ranting about the Jews from streetcorners in the 1920s, he was part

of a long history of European anti-Semitism.

But where in the world did this massive anti-trans campaign come from? | feel like it was invented out of whole cloth in the last five years.

@ Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 22h

| need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

NBC NEWS WATCH

OUT POLITICS AND POLICY

Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail

The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing

extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.

Second image:

Raids and book burnings

Nazi Party members at the Opernplatz

book burning in Berlin On 6 May 1933, while Hirschfeld was in Ascona, Switzerland, the Deutsche Studentenschaft made an organised attack on the Institute of Sex Research, A brass band accompanied them as they arrived in the morning. After breaking into the building, the students destroyed much of what was inside, and looted tens of thousands of items — including works by authors who had been blacklisted in Nazi Germany. Following this, the leader of the students gave a speech before the institute, and the students sang Horst-Wessel-Lied Members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) appeared later in the day to continue looting the institute.

Four days later, the institute's remaining library and archives were publicly hauled out and burned in the streets of the Opernplatz by members of SA alongside the students. A bronze bust of Hirschfeld, taken from the institute, was placed on top of the bonfire. One estimate says that between 12,000 to 20,000 books and journals, and even larger number of images and sex subjects, were destroyed. Another estimate says that about 25,000 books were destroyed.

gkrnours Mar 12, 2025

@Lana wait, they did cross the border from germany to switzerland to do their book burning? I had never known that detail :/

tant Mar 12, 2025

@gkrnours Hirschfeld was in Switzerland because he was warned to not go back to Germany, and while he was there the Nazis destroyed his institute in Berlin.

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 12, 2025

@gkrnours no, they waited until Dr Hirchfeld, the founder of the institute, was away and in Switzerland, and then attacked his clinic, which was located in Berlin.

gkrnours Mar 12, 2025

@Lana oh, ok, I misread. Kinda make the nazi some cowards to wait for the old man to be out of town before ransacking his school

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 12, 2025

@gkrnours yeah. Nazis are cowards.

Whisper of Reason Mar 12, 2025

@Lana I'm cisgender and I completely agree with you. Those who *refuse* to see and understand the obvious are the Nazis.

Ais Mar 12, 2025

@Lana Honestly, it’s frustrating. People can’t see what’s happening right in front of them. I’m genuinely terrified for the future of what’s to come. Thing is, I don’t think anyone is coming to save us from this. We have to save ourselves and that will probably be the hardest part.

Maki 🔻Apr 15, 2025

@ais_wey @Lana Forget "can't" and instead read "don't" want to see what's happening right in front of them. It's willful ignorance because they fear that seeing it will make it real. Those who aren't applauding it just want it to not be real, and most choose to look away in so far as it's not affecting them yet. It's fine when it's done to "the other". George #Orwell remarked on that in his novel 1984, see attached picture.

Jenica Apr 15, 2025

@RandamuMaki @ais_wey @Lana *hold my scarlett letter* akin to the salem trials, people snitching on others to avoid the obsessive, oppressive persecution.

@Lana @pathfinder

I have been observing this from north of the border and find it horrifying. Are there any groups organizing underground railroads to Canada, should it come to that? What organizations can we tap into if we want to help?

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 12, 2025

@rozo314 @pathfinder

Donate here:
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Willow Mar 12, 2025

@Lana
People don't know about this, though, because everyone *agreed* with that erasure. The gay people who were targeted in the Holocaust got some recognition at the end of the 20th century with the gay rights movement, but no one teaches about Hirschfeld in schools, almost no one in the mainstream knows that Berlin was the center of the world for queer and transgender people in the 1920s, no one knows about the Damenklubs and their complex gender dynamics, the passes that Hirschfeld issued, the way his research led directly to the pathologization in the DSM that lasted into the early 2000s. Dora Richter, Toni Ebel, and Gerda von Zobeltitz are not famous names like Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel. We should understand this not as a "return" to the acts of 1933 but as a continuation of a persistent, century-long erasure that has enabled this new wave to say things like "there was no such thing as transgender people until 5 years ago."

Willow Mar 12, 2025

@Lana
I apologize if that came off rant-y, please take it as "extremely vehement and overly enthusiastic agreement."

jb Mar 17, 2025

@Lana I’ve been saying the same thing for no less than a decade. I’m louder now, not that screaming at a void changes anything.

@Lana if you are in America, don't be.

Scotland is lovely any time of year.

Jessica 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)Mar 18, 2025

@ScotInTraining @Lana

Scotland is taking the same steps as the US. They are going after self-ID. and one of the charity centers for women subjected to domestic violence stated that they will not accept Trans women anymore, and neither will they hire a trans woman.

I'm afraid countries that are accepting of Trans people are shrinking due to relentless media campaigns against us that shifted public opinion about us. Most people are not familiar with trans people, and what they know is what media feed them.

Chloe G artist Apr 15, 2025

@jessica_fey how will they know who is trans and who isn’t?

Jessica 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)Apr 15, 2025

@Chloeg
It's really not about that. It's about discrimination, and if that discrimination is pointed to a cis woman every now and then, they wouldn't care either.

Plus, it gives them the power to refuse services to anyone they don't like without being held accountable.

m0jek Mar 17, 2025

@Lana well said!

Sonikku Mar 17, 2025

@Lana
I read a book recently about what Hitler and friends tried to do in WW2, where they started and what their goals were.

I didn't finish the book because it became quite apparent to me that history is repeating itself here and the reality we live in is disturbing now. I stopped reading at the point where the war was coming to an end and so many people had been murdered by the Nazis.

In school the details about the gay/trans/disabled people were embellished or omitted. I only recently learnt that Hitler targeted specifically not only the Jewish people, but very much gay, transgender, and particularly disabled people too. They even had a German word for disabled people.. I forget what it was, also don't want to remember it.

Sibylle Mar 17, 2025

@Lana I bring this up all the time. common answer: but the gender weirdos are ovverreacting a bit, too.

It is so frustrating... They do not even see shit when you press their face into it...

@Lana THIS, ALL OF THIS!

Dean F.Mar 19, 2025

@Lana My trans friends are living in mortal terror, and I'm furious on their behalf.

Dean F.Mar 19, 2025

@Lana So, in America today:

- Letting your unvaccinated child die of measles = parents' rights, but...
- Loving, supporting and validating your transgender child = abuse.

God bless America? Try, "God HELP America."

Simon Zerafa Mar 22, 2025

An illusion the points you are making quite well.

Aral Balkan Apr 15, 2025

@Lana @peterbrown Alt text, first screenshot: Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social
19h
When Hitler started ranting about the Jews from streetcorners in the 1920s, he was part of a long history of European anti-Semitism.
But where in the world did this massive anti-trans campaign come from? I feel like it was invented out of whole cloth in the last five years.
• Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 22h
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

NBC NEWS

Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail
The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.

Aral Balkan Apr 15, 2025

@Lana @peterbrown Alt text: second screenshot, Wikipedia: Raids and book burnings
Nazi Party members at the Opernplatz book burning in Berlin
On 6 May 1933, while Hirschfeld was in Ascona, Switzerland, the Deutsche Studentenschaft made an organised attack on the Institute of Sex Research. (171|70] A brass band accompanied them as they arrived in the morning. After breaking into the building, the students destroyed much of what was inside, and looted tens of thousands of items - including works by authors who had been blacklisted in Nazi Germany. Following this, the leader of the students gave a speech before the institute, and the students sang Horst-Wessel-Lied. 71] Members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) appeared later in the day to continue looting the institute. 71]
Four days later, the institute's remaining library and archives were publicly hauled out and burned in the streets of the Opernplatz by members of SA alongside the students. A bronze bust of Hirschfeld, taken from the institute, was placed on top of the bonfire. 17170 One estimate says that between 12,000 to 20,000 books and journals, and even larger number of images and sex subjects, were destroyed. 70) Another estimate says that about 25,000 books were destroyed. 172]

bananas_pizza Apr 15, 2025

@Lana dude next to me said that this is bs, but a 5 minute web search can show that everything you said is true. At least there was this person: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Magnus-Hirschfeld whose books, institute and works, in general, were burned after nazis took over

Magnus Hirschfeld | Biography & Facts | Britannica

Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician who was an important theorist of sexuality and a prominent advocate of gay rights in the early 20th century. He maintained that sexual orientation was innate and not a deliberate choice. Learn more about Hirschfeld’s life and work.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Andrea Bianchi Apr 15, 2025

@Lana If you were wondering why the Germans did not see Hitler coming, read this diary:

https://search.worldcat.org/title/43076825

It's written by Harry Graf Kessler. He was a high ranking officer in the German army during WWI, gay, and a sculptor. He was extremely connected and he did not see this coming.