It is 222 A.D.

willowbriar@chaosfem.tw

It is 1865. You are Doctor James Barry, stealth transgender man and former Inspector General for the British army. You leave notice that upon your death your body must not be examined. This is not followed, and a media circus follows with a shocking gender reveal. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1876. You are author Marc/Marie de Montifaud. You "crossdress" as a man when visiting the library for research, use the names Marc and Marie interchangably, and your pronouns are known by multiple people to be she/he. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1880. You are known mononymously as the decadent author Rachilde. You delight in presenting publicly as sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes in between. You joyfully describe yourself as "androgynous". Transitioning is new and experimental.

nelson@wetdry.world

@CharlotteEowyn where's my wendy carlos

ghost_bird@weirder.earth

@CharlotteEowyn I’d substitute Nero’s second wife Poppea for Elagabalus there… but yeah

undead@masto.hackers.town

@CharlotteEowyn

It is ~2280 BCE. You are Enheduanna. You live in one of the largest cities of the world and are the highest clergy in service to Inanna, goddess of your society's greatest religion. You create one of the oldest pieces of world literature. Transitioning is normal and welcomed as part of religious practice.

australopithecus@mastodon.social

@CharlotteEowyn
It is ~2000BCE. You are a priest of Inanna . . .

cleoqc@cosocial.ca

@CharlotteEowyn
300 BC you reject gender norms to the point of castrating yourself with no anesthesia so you can become a galli and live like a woman. Transitioning is new and experimental

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/galli-0017397

charlotteeowyn@chaosfem.tw

@CleoQc https://www.amazon.com/Wrath-Goddess-Sing-Maya-Deane/dp/0063161184

You'll love it.

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@CharlotteEowyn Great post, wholly agree, but just as a note--Marsha wasn't actually there. She said she was uptown at the time.

shibanarchiste@piaille.fr

@CharlotteEowyn Such biggotry...

art_histories@mastodon.social

@CharlotteEowyn It is 3rd century AD, you are no defined gender and a deity who is worshipped.
"Laevius says: Worshiping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's, because she is held to be both male and female." (Macrobius (c. 400s AD), Saturnalia 3.8.2)
Nothing is new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphroditus

southbob@mastodon.social

@CharlotteEowyn makes you realize humans have been the same since the beginning

lda@masto.doskel.net

@CharlotteEowyn isnt the PUF just "the friend" (i.e, genderless), thus making them FT(NB) (?) rather than FTM?
doesn't change any of the point though, im just being slightly annoying on a detail

ratsnakegames@mastodon.social

@nelson @CharlotteEowyn i don't think it was OP's intent to create a full list of every historical trans person

nelson@wetdry.world

@ratsnakegames @CharlotteEowyn yeah but my wendy carlos

cosmicktrigger@mastodon.social

@CharlotteEowyn

When did Wendy Carlos (inventer of the Moog synthesizer and who experimented with computers playing music) transition publicly? I believe it was the 70s.

Also, a Bond girl was trans and Playboy, in the 70s, featured a pictorial by a trans woman.

One more thing: because the Stonewall was run by the mob, the cops used the RICO act as justification for the raid. I

charlotteeowyn@chaosfem.tw

@lda I usually assume transmasculine means 'towards masculinity' and not maleness, and transfemininity means 'towards femininity' and not femaleness. They can include those things, but are not necessarily those things.

So like, when I identified as she/her I was transfeminine. I now use they/she and I'm still transfeminine. Someone whose's nonbinary would still fall under the umbrella of their community, I assume.

Like everyone is different, not everyone will define it that way, but I wanted to call out it wasn't just trans women.

willowbriar@chaosfem.tw

@CharlotteEowyn It is 7th century BCE. You are mythological third-gendered entity Asu-shu-namir, created by the god Enki to rescue Innana after the goddess descended into the underworld to steal her sister Ereshkigal's power. You are impossibly beautiful, neither man or woman, and your goal is to seduce the Queen of the Netherworld and steal the waters of life to revive Inanna. Upon completing your task you are caught, and while Inanna escapes, you do not. You and others like you are cursed by Ereshkigal to suffer economic hardship and social ostracization unto eternity. Transitioning is new(?) and experimental(?).

mgorny@mastodon.com.pl

@CharlotteEowyn, the only thing really old and tested thoroughly is being ignorant.

marfymazie@yiff.life

@CharlotteEowyn
It's the 19th century America civil war, you're "Mrs. Nash" (sorry I can't find her first name), trans/intersex woman and friend to George Custer and his wife Libbie. You do not wish to be undressed after you pass when you fall badly ill...
Transitioning is new and experimental.

it's the 16th / 17th century, you're the gender nonconforming (it's hard to put any assignment to them as they dressed and acted masculine but how they identified is harder to say) Mary Frith / Mol Cutpurse / Tom Faconer. Gender non conformity (and transition) is new and experimental.

thatonepersonwithaface@todon.eu

@nelson @CharlotteEowyn

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It is 222 A.D.