Episode 85 - transgender people have been around since forever!

And we will take as much time as it takes to talk about it!!! Trans people have existed and will continue to exist. Documented history notes a “third sex” as far back as 7000BCE. They existed in every culture, just as gay and queer people. They lived alongside many religions and are acknowledged in several.

This ep is quite long. We won’t be recording for about 3 weeks so we hope this will do.

Be well. Stay safe. Get educated. Share information not misinformation.

Support resources:

• ​Pflag.org
• ​Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
• ​LGBT National Youth Talkline 800-246-7743
• ​Translife.org

sources:

Stone maidens

https://history.stanford.edu/publications/fox-spirit-stone-maiden-and-other-transgender-histories-late-imperial-china

Two spirit people (indigenous America)

https://www.ihs.gov/lgbt/twospirit/#:~:text=Though%20Two%2DSpirit%20may%20now,therefore%2C%20constituted%20a%20fourth%20gender.

Lili elbe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe

Elebagalus

https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/tgi-bios/elagabalus

Anastasia the patrician, Anna of Constantinople, Agnes of moncada, apollonaria, athanasia, and others

https://qspirit.net/trans-saints-cross-dressing-monks/

trans person in an 18th c hospital

https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/an1/dis

Trans children in antebellum America- 5 cases

https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/transgenderchildrenantebellum