The systematic erasure of transgender people from legal recognition, government websites, and federal data is not without historical precedent. In the early 1930s, one of the first acts of Nazi power was the looting of the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute of Sexology, where 30,000 pioneering books on transgender and queer identities were burned—images that now serve as stark reminders in history books across the United States. Today, the U.S. government is orchestrating a modern-day purge, not with fire, but through the wholesale deletion of transgender existence from federal records and public policy. History has shown where such actions lead, and the public must recognize the warning signs before it is too late.