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Fascists: Interrupting drag shows since 1938!
Actually ~~not~~ it's complicated.
Fascinating as it may sound, transvestites were mostly allowed in the third reich, when they weren't homosexual.
The even got their own pass:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestite_pass
After reading the German and English version I am a little puzzled, since the German version says, that they were kept and transvestites stayed unharmed when not homosexual while the English version says:
The German original source says the following:
Which translates to: