David P<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Lana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Lana</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a></p><p>First image:</p><p>Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social 19h </p><p>When Hitler started ranting about the Jews from streetcorners in the 1920s, he was part </p><p>of a long history of European anti-Semitism. </p><p>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. </p><p>@ Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 22h </p><p>| 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. </p><p>This is a campaign of eradication. </p><p>www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna... </p><p>NBC NEWS WATCH </p><p>OUT POLITICS AND POLICY </p><p>Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail </p><p>The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing </p><p>extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years. </p><p>Second image:</p><p>Raids and book burnings </p><p>Nazi Party members at the Opernplatz </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>