Many people thought that John Laws died the other week - but he's actually being held in the drains under this dog statue next to the QVB. Every time someone approaches, Pennywise the Clown forces him give this speech! True story.
Pauline Pantsdown
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The People’s Pauline. he/him.
![A transvestite pass (German: Transvestitenschein) was a doctor's note recognized by the governments of Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, under the support of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, identifying a person as a transvestite. Transvestite at this time referred to all individuals whose gender identity or preferred clothing was discordant to that associated with their assigned sex, and so included both cross-dressing and transgender people.[1] As gender-confirming surgery was only an emerging practice in the early 20th century, obtaining a Transvestitenschein, along with an official name change, represented the maximum extent to which many trans individuals could transition.[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gy77ew3k6ovcjahyytheyc23/bafkreidyf5p55mucyzm3dkccaauco7rp43ot7m7hciqw7wgvcbheu53qle)
![ost-Weimar period
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, German police stopped recognizing and providing passes. The police also revoked the passes of people who already had them, and in some instances, the pass was used to identify people to send to concentration camps.[11] One example of this is Liddy Bacroff, who received a pass in 1928. After 1933, she had several encounters with the local police until they sent her to the Mauthausten concentration camp, where she died in 1943.[25] Another example is that of Gerd Kuppe, whose pass was revoked in 1933, and in 1938, he was sent to a concentration camp; however, he was released a few months later.[25] In September of 1939, Alex. S. petitioned the government to have his birth register changed from female to male. This was denied, and Alex ended up on a Nazi watchlist. This led to him losing his transvestite pass.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gy77ew3k6ovcjahyytheyc23/bafkreibqa2b4jdijtpixff4xxgxthagilvmnpd4o2lervtwmvz6wrxdfgy)
