What is often (intentionally) left out is that Nazi Germany continued the practice (albeit without issuing new transvestitenscheins). This article attempts to "debunk" that by giving examples of a cross-dresser who were arrested and either disappeared or were sent to camps. The problem is that they all were arrested for other things with only passing criticism of their cross-dressing (all this information is provided in the article itself)...
- Liddy Bacroff was a gay prostitute. "She made her living selling sex to male clients."
- H. Bode was gay. "They considered her male, so her relationships were homosexual and illegal."
- Toni Simon ran an illegal gay bar and was a critic of the Nazis. "The Essen police knew Simon as the sassy proprietor of an underground club where LGBTQ people gathered. In the mid-1930s, she was hauled into court for criticizing the Nazi regime."
Meanwhile the author goes out of his way to downplay the known cases of Nazis renewing these certificates as somehow being outliers with no evidence that they were the exception. Sorry, "Laurie", that's not how null hypotheses work.
You could use this same level of "research" to prove that fat people were persecuted by the Nazis. Meanwhile, I'm reasonably sure that Nazi Germany might have been one of the best places in the western world for heterosexual trannies. I have just as much evidence if not more.