Summary

The website content discusses J.K. Rowling's controversial statements regarding the LGBTQIA+ community's victimization during the Holocaust, drawing attention to historical facts about the Nazi persecution of LGBTQIA+ individuals and the significance of the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin.

Abstract

The article critically addresses J.K. Rowling's denial of the targeting of LGBTQIA+ individuals by the Nazis, highlighting that they were among the first victims of the Holocaust. It underscores the historical context of Berlin in the 1920s as a progressive hub for sexuality and leftist political thought, largely influenced by Jewish intellectuals. The piece emphasizes the Nazis' envy of Jewish contributions to society, leading to the destruction of the Institute for Sexual Research, a pioneering center for LGBTQIA+ rights and research headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute's work, including advocacy for LGBTQIA+ rights and groundbreaking studies on gender and sexuality, was symbolically and physically destroyed by the Nazis. The article expresses outrage at Rowling's statements, which are seen as ignorant and harmful, proposing that her comments should have legal consequences and that she should be barred from profiting from speaking engagements in the United States.

Opinions

The author believes J.K. Rowling's ignorance is inexcusable and that her statements are a form of erasure of the generational trauma experienced by the LGBTQIA+ community.
The article suggests that Rowling's tweet is deeply offensive to LGBTQIA+ individuals, particularly in light of the historical persecution they faced during the Holocaust.
The author advocates for legal action against Rowling and for her to be banned from traveling to the United States, arguing that her speaking engagements could further traumatize LGBTQIA+ students.
There is a call for accountability, suggesting that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) should pursue a civil suit against Rowling's estate.
The piece contrasts Rowling's perceived ignorance with the knowledge of Alejandra Caraballo, who is praised for being well-read on the subject.

J.K. Rowling has Revealed Her Final Form: Holocaust Denier

Imagine how delusional you’d have to be to argue that LGBTQIA+ persons weren’t targets of the Nazi’s Final Solution. In fact, they were the first people the Nazis went after. Of course, they were also Jews and members of the Nazi’s opposition, the German Communist Party (KPD).

You probably can’t. Unless your name is J.K. Rowling.

The fact that Jews, Socialists and “sexual deviants” all had significant overlap was not lost on the Germans.

Berlin had flourished in the 1920s as the most progressive city in the world when it came to sexuality and leftist political philosophy. Both of which were pioneered by the Jewish intellectuals who made their mark on the world from the halls of universities in Berlin, Munich and Vienna.

Hitler and his zealots were so envious of the Jews who had brought their nation into the future, they sought to destroy every bit of evidence of their intellect. Which is why the first building raided by the Nazis was none other than the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin.

The very first research institute in the world dedicated to the study of homosexuality and what we now call transgenderism.

The Institute was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld, who since 1897 had run the world’s first homosexual organization Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee (Scientific-Humanitarian Committee), which campaigned on progressive and rational grounds for LGBT rights and tolerance at the start of the first homosexual movement that would flourish in interwar Weimar culture.

Founded in 1919, the Institute had been set up by Hirschfeld, a world-renowned expert in the emerging science of sexology. During its existence, thousands of patients were seen and treated, for free, as it was a non-profit.

The Institute also achieved a global reputation for its pioneering work on transsexual understanding and calls for equality for homosexuals, transgender people and cis women. Hirschfeld himself was a passionate advocate for LGBT rights and had long appealed for the repeal of Paragraph 175, the law that criminalized homosexuality in Germany.

Jewish, gay and outspokenly liberal, Hirschfeld was an obvious target for the Nazis, and the seizure and destruction of the Institute on May 6, 1933 took place only three months after Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany.

Hirschfeld built a unique library at the institute on gender, same-sex love and eroticism.

All of which the Nazis cruelly burned, a veritable Library of Alexandria on all things LGBT. Much of which formed the earliest studies on gender affirmation, hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgeries. In other words, they burned down the foundation of LGBTQIA+ healthcare.

Why? Because it was “normalizing” these people as human beings, instead of the “sexual deviants” the Nazis labelled them as. It was doing too well in removing the stigmas associated with them.

So imagine the pain and disgust anyone who is LGBTQIA+ must feel when seeing this ignorant tweet from J.K. Rowling trying to erase their generational trauma by denying their status as victims of the Holocaust.

Her “not knowing” that trans people were the Nazi’s first targets does not excuse her ignorance.

I sincerely hope that the ADL pursues a civil suit against her estate and pressures Congress to ban her from travelling to the United States. She doesn’t need to be making more money by further traumatizing trans students at paid speaking engagements in their universities.

I will leave you with the words of Alejandra Caraballo, who apparently reads far more books than Rowling.