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ResourceJeanette Schmid
You have probably all heard the claim that trans were victims of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide. Untrue but here’s a little slice of history which further undermines this narrative and gives a very specific example.
Jeanette Schmid was a professional whistler - quite a famous one who performed with other famous people. Born in 1924 in Czechoslovakia to a German family. He signed up for the military at 17 (so literal Nazi) but fled to Munich for refuge when Czechs began to fight against Nazi incursions into the Sudetenland. So a TIM who found safety in Hitler’s Germany. There he became a popular entertainer, presenting as a woman. He made no effort to hide his identity nor did he ever encounter any issues living in the Germany of the time. He underwent sex change surgery in Cairo in the sixties.
He can be found on ‘queer history’ sites but they seem to gloss over the inconvenient bits.