how to look for specifically trans people in history
Mary Robinette Kowal @MaryRobinette on Twitter
“Grandma was born in 1905. One time she was showing me picture of 4 little girls. and paused, “Course, that was before Norma was a boy.” Grandma was 8 in the picture, which meant it was 1913. She said, “Her parents took her away & brought back a son. Grandma said, “They had a funeral for their daughter & from then on had a son. The Lord put it into their head to do what was right.” Grandma said, “So that’s my cousin, Jed. I reckon he did all right. Again. This was 1913. NEVER use the excuse “product of their time.” If my Southern Baptist, 103-year old Grandma could understand transgender, so can you. ”
a son would “move to Europe,” and then a few months later your “niece” would move into town and live in his old bedroom
much global variance in gender norms and what, if anything, is considered a divergence from that norm
indigenous peoples and their various relations to sex and gender
German history; the impact of Nazism on queer lives and histories
Germany had a thriving LGBTQ community in the early 20th century
Magus Hirshfeld (German) literally coined the term “transsexual” and performed the first modern SRS in the 1920’s