I think this last bit is what I take issue with. The Final Solution or the Holocaust is part of, but still its own distinct aspect of Nazi Germany's general domestic policies.
Not everything bad that Nazi Germany did was the Holocaust or part of the Final Solution. The Final Solution was specifically about racial / genetic purity.
Basically the gays want to claim victimhood on the level of the jews or the roma, when they're really more on the level of communists or political agitators. I'm not saying they were treated well, but it's a big stretch to act like they were victims of the Holocaust.
Also, small gripe, but Alan Turing wasn't castrated. Chemical castration isn't really castration. Stop taking the pills and things generally go back to normal.
It's certainly torture to be used as a punishment, but it's kind of a misnomer to treat it as literal castration.
The Nazis used some amount of chemical castration on convicted gays, but not in huge numbers. Many convicted gays went on to serve in the military, and having functioning male endocrine systems is important for that.
I've written about this before. The National Socialist Party had conflicting agendas about homosexuality early on. Röhm was a homosexual and also Hitler's best friend; he was the only one allowed to call him Adi among other personal affectations. This is because Hitler himself was not bothered by gay men on a personal level. It is that compliance and tolerance that lead to various humors that he himself was a homosexual. This was at odds with the greater NSDAP, but not so much the SA, which by the 1934 had dwarfed both the NSDAP and Wehrmacht combined in size. While the Social Democrats and Green Party, and not particularly the communists of this era as they had in Lenin's early days of power, supported homosexuality, they also used it as a tool to unravel the NSDAP and ran editorials claiming that Rhöm's homosexuality was an indication of the NSDAP's weak moral character. The emphasis is on moral character, as the homosexual movement in Germany was becoming very successful post-Weimar, ultimately making the issue of Röhm's sexuality a tieritary issue for political opponents. With that in mind you can understand why the Berlin police rarely charged anyone with homosexual crimes, which was established under Paragraph 175. Rhöm himself was charged with this in 1931, but all five trials were a bust. They were clown trials no one really took seriously or cared all that much about. You might compare these trials to what would later become of homosexual trials... or really any under the NSDAP after Hitler took power.
So, in 1933 the Sex Institute was raided and the books were burned by Rhöm's SA due to a party initiative to destroy homosexual materials. Transsexuals, transvestites and so forth were hardly considered at all. I have personally only seen two NSDAP documents recognizing either term, and in context they refer to them as offshoots of homosexuality. The idea of a transsexual in 1933 would not have been as well regarded or known as a transvestite, which was the more common Weimar orriented affliction that men could receive cards for to publicly crossdress. Similarly, one might compare this to "female crossdressing" wherein a woman would wear trousers. While many NSDAP believed in this Aryan myth of the Vril Society and Maria Orsic, many wives of high ranking officers enjoyed the luxories of what were once considered male-only clothing. Goebbels' wife Magda had famously liked wearing trousers, which as you might have guessed led to Goebbels trying to normalize the idea in the party (I believe this is why you can find WAAC and other auxiliary corps' uniforms with trousers so easily when Hitler began to consider women as part of the war effort in 1940). This also illustrates that while crossdressing was connected to male homosexuality, it was not for female homosexuality, which was almost entirely associated with asociality, which the NSDAP was not entirely against during the war effort if it could suit them well enough (see: Violette Morris).
In 1934 Himmler, as he began to construct his insane and often poorly thought out pagan religion for the Schutzstaffel, began to conspire with Heydrich to take down Rhöm. Either man felt an intense hatred for homosexuality, and would regularly lobby to Hitler that it needed to be purged out of the party. As I mentioned earlier, by 1934 the SA had overtaken the Whermact in numbers, which Blomberg and others in the then German government felt threatened by. Himmler exploited that and argued the only way to cement his power to the government and the people was to make purges throughout the SA; he also contended that homosexuality was actually a Jewish conspiracy, a notion that had already been expoused by earlier Nazi rhetoric in the late 1920s. Mussolini at the time, at the behest of Meißner and Neurath through Hassel, was also chastizing Hitler for Rhöm's alleged homosexuality
in addition to the rowdy and cantankerous nature of the SA. With the mounting political pressure in all directions, the Night of the Long Knives Began. Male homosexuals were systemically targeted, and upon Rhöm's capture, he was given a pistol to end himself "honorably". He said that if Adi wanted him dead he could do it himself. When informed of this, Hitler hesitated and felt great unease. It was very clear he did not want to kill his best friend, but it was a necessary sacrifice for the greater good of the party. Hitler would then go onto denounce homosexuality, and males would be prosecuted regularly, and far more seriously from then onward, under Paragraph 175. You might compare the political machinations of this event to Himmler's religion. Hitler had disavowed religion and felt it was a threat to the party and had to on at least one occasion directly disavvow the idea as a result of Himmler's nonsense. But it still went unchecked due to the lack of internal and external pressure. Anyway, homosexual men were targeted and arrested at extremely high rates in the late 1930s. Despite that, around 10,000 would actually be put in a concentration camp of any kind. The numbers for lesbians would be even smaller, as they were typically only arrested if they were Jewish, political opponents, asocials or whatever else. I don't recall ever seeing a lesbian purely arrested with homosexuality as the primary reason. It was moreso that people would find out and then look for any other transgression to report them, and then subsequently charge them; and a charge was more or less a conviction at that point (this is especially well documented with why Rommel committed suicide).
Doing some numbers, around 5-15% of charged homosexual men were sentenced to the camps. 60% of those men were killed. About 67% of Jews in the totality of Europe were murdered. There was a larger, far more concenerted effort to get of them than the homosexual. That doesn't somehow make them not victims of the Holocaust when there was still a very documented and real effort to get rid of them. Certainly more than political agitators and commies, unless you're referring to Soviet POWs. Jehovah's Witnesses were systemically targeted and may be one of the least targeted groups, but they were still targeted (around 8,000 arrests and nearly 2,000 deaths). Disabeled people were more likely to be targeted than either gays or religious dissidants combined, but they are also eclipsed by the Jewish deaths. It seems like an arbitrary argument to make about what constitutes a victim when you still have relatively large numbers being facitilated for death on basis of one characteristic. This argument really only makes sense if you're making it about troons, who again, the NSDAP barely acknowledged the existence of.
Also Nick is a deranged man that will never be a woman.