The Lilac People

by Milo Todd

Paragraph 175 had been explicitly about upholding male homosexuality. Transvestites were somehow lumped in based on how they were treated, but how exactly? What upheld male homosexuality and what did not? Did both people need to be male on their birth certificate? Many of them had successfully changed their birth certificates, including both Gert and Bertie. Or did both of them just need to present themselves as male? What about the surgeries? What about one surgery but not another? People seen as women were not on the books for their homosexuality. An attempt had been made years before. The only reason it did not go through for proper consideration was the first War and then the Treaty and suddenly Deutschland had much bigger problems to worry about. The Nazi Party considered women valuable incubators that could not be spared, so female homosexuals were prosecuted at much lesser numbers. And what of the Allied forces? Would Bertie be seen as a man or a woman to those in control? What about Karl? Did it matter? How could Karl be seen as a woman and a male invert at the same time? How could he be both a threat and not a threat for reasons that contradicted themselves?