Crass
Don’t bring up Anne Frank only to talk about something else.
Uganda Afghanistan and Somalia are not havens of human rights, for sure, but if you’re going to talk about Anne Frank, then talk about Anne Frank. Don’t bring her up just to point to something else.
Of course, he’s trying to suggest the false claim that trans people were targeted in the holocaust and therefore the idea that a modern trans genocide is taking place. It’s all very obvious and very sleazy.
And all too typical.
That someone who calls themselves a “historian of queer past” is o.k. with erasing lesbians too, when discussing a passage from Frank’s diary where Frank expresses her desire for a woman. It’s just part of the overall effort to affirm queerness over same-sex attraction.