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Lesbians more likely to be kicked out of military
Women are far more likely than men to be kicked out of the military under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy against gays in uniform, according to government figures released Thursday that critics said reflect deep-seated sexism in the armed forces.
Women accounted for 15 percent of all active-duty and reserve members of the military but more than one-third of the 619 people discharged last year because of their sexual orientation.
The disparity was particularly striking in the Air Force, where women represented 20 percent of all personnel but 61 percent of those expelled. That is a significant jump from the previous year and marks the first time women in any branch of the military constituted a majority of those dismissed under "don't ask, don't tell," researchers said.
Nathaniel Frank, a researcher at the Palm Center, a University of California, Santa Barbara, center specializing in gays and the military, said one partial explanation is that homosexuality is more common among women in the service than among their male comrades.
‘Lesbian-baiting’ rumors
But Frank and some women who served in the military said the gap
Until 1971, homosexuality was strictly forbidden in Austria. For almost 120 years, not only men but also women were charged and convicted of “unnatural homosexual fornication”. During the Nazi era and shortly afterwards, their numbers were particularly high, as study in recent years has shown. Documents from the Arolsen Archives help historians reconstruct the fates of individual victims – like Maria Glawitsch, Johanna Perkounig, and Angela Fasching.
In Germany during the Nazi era, lesbian men were persecuted, arrested, and deported to concentration camps, where they had to wear a “pink triangle” as an identification highlight . Thousands of them died in the camps. Conversely, sexual acts between women were never officially forbidden in Germany. The “fornication paragraph,” Paragraph 175, applied exclusively to men. That explains why the persecution of lesbian women by the Nazi regime was secret and indirect.
Lesbian women were considered outsiders because they did not fit in with the National Socialist image of women. They were often denounced, some of them were arrested under a pretext and then deported to concentration camps as “anti-social ele
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"I've had someone saying they would rather kill me than Hitler," says 24-year-old Jennie*.
"They said they would strangle me with a belt if they were in a room with me and Hitler. That was so bizarrely violent, just because I won't have sex with trans women."
Jennie is a lesbian woman. She says she is only sexually attracted to women who are biologically female and have vaginas. She therefore only has sex and relationships with women who are biologically female.
Jennie doesn't consider this should be controversial, but not everyone agrees. She has been described as transphobic, a genital fetishist, a pervert and a "terf"