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New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart.
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
![According to historian Laurie Marhoefer "the Nazi state reserved its worst violence for trans women."
196. A gay prisoner and survivor of the Lichtenburg concentration camp named Kurt von Ruffin recalled that camp officials often treated trans people with particular contempt. 62] Incoming transgender women to the camp would be "stripped out of their women's clothes and then humiliated, insulted and beaten." 62. Ruffin recalled hearing of one occasion where a transgender woman was forced to undress, then had her head forcibly shoved into a dirty latrine until she drowned. 62]
Lucy Salani was the only known Italian transgender person known to have survived imprisonment in the concentration camps, including the Dachau concentration camp. She died in 2023.9/198. At least one Austrian trans woman, reterred to as Bella
P., is known to have been imprisoned in a concentration camp after a sentence under a law targeting "unnatural fornication" [99] Another trans woman, known only as "H. Bode" is known to have been killed in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
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