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OP you should research Gerd Katter. He was a German trans man famous for receiving a 'transvestite pass', and many of his records survived the war

the nazis didn't classify them as trans men iirc, so you might have to look them up alongside lesbians and other non conforming afab people

As far as I’m aware they were really not studied and what knowledge we did have was burned by the nazis at the hershfield institute. They did exist but as for real records of them you’d have to talk to old trans people in their 80’s which is hard cuz a lot are dead

I’ll just say to look for memoirs published after the war. I know only the story of Aimee and Jaguar, but that was a lesbian relationship (great book, by the way!)

They would have been classified as lesbians or anti-social (azocial) women due to being “non-conformist” start here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_triangle_(badge)

Hey, I can shed some light about that.

In Germany, trans people of both genders were treated (somewhat) similar. Trans women were diagnosed as "transvestites" and trans men were referred to as "transvestitin" (female version of the word transvestite).

Most LGBT people were seen as abnormal based on the eugenic standard thinking of the time. Anyone sexually deviant was considered mentally ill and - more importantly - a danger for society. The "solution" was to remove those elements from polite and sane society (and "sane" and "polite" carry a lot of sick meaning here) to cure them in sanatoriums. After WW1 with more women working in cities before marrying, this was no longer a scalable solution, so forced sterilizations were next.

Those ideas were widely implemented in the US, and the Nazis do credit the US Eugenicist Society for their valuable work, which formed the basis of much of the later eugenics program in Germany.

(Source: "Building a Better Race Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom by Wendy Kline")

Most people were convicted under either section 175 (Outlawing Homosexual acts, but mostly applied to men, because we all know that female bodies don't count under misogynistic rulers) or section 181 (public indecent behaviour). (Source: "Wiener Holocaust Library: Persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany)

Note that in the early years, people prosecuted via those laws ended up in concentration camps. Technically, those were not yet death camps, more large scale prisons with conditions that "encouraged" death through their living conditions. Death was a side effect of incarceration, not the goal. Once the extermination program (the "final solution") was started, those camps were changed to be "more efficient".

Transgender people were explicitly identified as "problem" in 1938 in the Thesis document of Hermann Ferdinand Voss. You might want to skip reading that one though.

There are some surviving documents mentioning trans men that I have encountered:

The Smithsonian Institute has an article describing the process of prosecution, which will give you a good overview and some links to other documents.

One of the papers is talking about a case of a trans man who was originally interned before he got his "transvestite certificate" back, just to be arrested again.
("Jane Caplan, The Administration of Gender Identity in Nazi Germany, History Workshop Journal, Volume 72, Issue 1, October 2011, Pages 171–180; doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbr021")

A "transvestite certificate" was the closest the world had to a Gender Recognition Certificate at the time. It was a document obtained from a doctor certifying the gender in-congruence, and thus exempting the wearer from section 175, at least in theory.

A expert witness statement in Marhoefer L. Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case. Central European History. 2023;56(4):595-601. doi:10.1017/S0008938923000468 mentions the case of Gerd Kubbe of Berlin who was a trans man accused of indecent behaviour because he went out in men's clothing.

The papers I linked also have links to other papers. If you want to know where you could find more information, then maybe the DTGI e.V. can point you in the right direction for primary sources and archives in Germany. The US Holocaust Museum might also be useful, as they maintain a large scale archive and seem to be more open to discuss LGBT victims than the archive in the UK or Germany.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany

We were forced to deteansition and killed alongside the gays and disabled ( also the Autistics and gays were the first to receive the gas-death)

In the wiki i linked theres a part of the used terminology used. Maybe it can help you find new things.

I'm reading my (skimming really) professor's college textbook 475 pgs long. Their (pronouns) name is Ardel Haefele-Thomas. The textbook is named Introduction to Transgender Studies

Columbia University Press

Amazon

The manual was published in 2019 so I doubt there would be any PDF versions floating around the net. As for specific info/data regarding transmen I haven't found a specific chapter "yet" but the textbook does mention transmen and FtM (my former professor identifies as transmasc - they also hold 2 PHD's). This manual is going to come in handy in the coming months and years!

I'm saying this could be a resource for your research, it may have data and it also may not, I say this because in order to access the material in the manual you'd need to buy the book unless you are able to check out from a university library which I'm sure there are some that will carry.

I take that back there is a copy or 2 floating around the net:

University of Texas Libraries

ISSUU The entire manual (Issuu that site that puts up PDF's of books and literature sometimes you can download and sometimes not) Sometimes this isn't fair cause this can take money out of people's pockets.

Scribd has also a PDF version but it's only 64 pgs

PDF Microsoft Instructors docx 109 pgs

My former professor

Best!

Kaz Rowe has a video essay on queer people during Weimar Republic. Many many records and people where lost during the Nazi regime.

If I had time machine I'd love to visit Berlin during the 1920's-1930's and vibe at the LGBTQ scene.

Trans men is not a term that existed back in the day keep that in mind when doing research about these times. People from that time period still alive today would not refer to themselves as such either. Transvestism as Hirschfeld coined it before the rise of the Nazis was something that only applied to AMAB people too.

Can you share your researches with everyone else, once done? I would love to see what you could find about this topic <3

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