In France they had the guillotine until 1981, but it became technically illegal to decapitate women from 1890s had a short rebirth in the Nazi era, and eventually banned again after that era.
Let's ignore the fact that France had the guillotine, a remnant of the French Revolutionary era. I've read somewhere (if I find it I will link it in another post), about how trans people couldn't change their birth certificate.
So someone like me or my room mate who are Male To Female would have been decapitated as men, and someone who is Female To Male would have been immune from the death penalty, because society still considered them female in France.
This wouldn't burn quite so much, if it weren't for the fact that (though born in the United States) I came very close to being a Borgia myself if not for the fact that I locked myself in my room all the time, in order to protect myself from my abusive parents.
Knowing this, I feel the burn. Either way you cut it, executing or not executing people using a generally primitive execution method (compared to gas chamber) is a really fucking awful way to treat your minority population.
That's ignoring that fact I'm against the death penalty anyway.
Even somehow France decided to change and not be trans phobic, there is still that history I'm not sure I can totally forgive.
Oh and what's wild is it's supposedly a very LGBT friendly country in general. Yea executing Trans women as men is so friendly.
