What is a Christine Jorgensen
Tfw nazis literally burnt Hirschfeld’s (sp?) papers so we wouldn’t be in the history books
Like I wanna be really clear. Hirschfeld was literally moving to a depathologized explanation of trans women (inversion as variance not defect) and was advocating for providing trans women with HRT and surgery, all the while treat numerous trans women with hormones, in the early 1930s. Berlin had a thriving trans and gay community you have never heard of because the nazis destroyed it and the systematically erased evidence of it.
It’s not that trans women have only existed the last thirty years, it’s that you have been intentionally denied knowledge of our history by reactionaries who want to see us dead.
In 1946 renowned new zealander Harold Gilles preformed the first FtM sex reassignment surgeries.
1946. A lot longer than 30 years ago.
In 1951 he was able to preform the opposite, pioneering techniques for those who were transitioning from male to female.
So anyone who says its only 30 years… should look to a local plastic surgeon and ask about Mr Gilles.
- 1812 – James Miranda Barry graduated from the Medical School of Edinburgh University as a doctor. Barry went on to serve as an army surgeon working overseas. Barry lived as a man but was found to be female-bodied upon his death in 1865.
- 1932 – The News of the World published a story, ‘Amazing Change of Sex’, about a trans man from Sussex who transitioned ‘from Margery to Maurice’. Colonel Sir Victor Barker DSO (1895 - 1960) married Elfrida Haward in Brighton. Barker’s birth sex (female) is later revealed and the marriage is consequently annulled….
- 1936 – A 30-year-old British athletic champion, Mark Weston of Plymouth, transitioned from female to male. The story appeared in some national newspapers, including the News of the World (31 May 1936). The reportage was accurate and sensitive. In the words of L. R. Broster, the Harley Street surgeon who treated him, ‘Mark Weston, who has always been brought up as a female, is a male and should continue to live as such’.
There is some debate on James Barry but I still think this is relevant. All of these taken from wikipedia timeline of LGBT history. (I had a look a few months ago out of curiosity.)
also, the goddess Ishtar had trans priestesses known as the Assinnu (they castrated themselves, went by female pronouns, and wore female garb, and basically by any possible definition were trans women) and that’s WAY the fuck back in the BC’s
Africa stares in Neolithic
During my research for trans and gender non-conforming folks in history:
- Elagabalus – c. 203-222 C.E. (Roman Empress)
- Christina, Queen of Sweden – 1626-1689
- Charlotte Clarke – 1713-1760
- Chevalier d'Eon – 1728-1810
- James Miranda Stuart Barry – 1789/1799-1865
- Charley Parkhurst – 1812-1879
- Joseph Lobdell – 1829-1912
- Albert Cashier – 1843-1915
- Jennie June – 1874-?
- Harry Allen – 1882-1922
- Lili Elbe – 1882-1931
- Lucy Hicks Anderson – 1886-1954
- Alan L. Hart – 1890-1962
- Dörchen Richter – 1891-1933
- Valerie Arkell-Smith (Victor Baker, John Hill, Jeffrey Norton) – 1895-1960
- Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet – 1912-1991
- Virginia Prince – 1912-2009
- Billy Tipton – 1914-1989
- Michael Dillon – 1915-1962
- Willmer “Little Ax” Broadnax – 1916-1992
This is a list that is 20 out of hundreds. It is nowhere complete, and I left out a lot of people that are still alive, and a lot of ancient people about whom I need to do more research. But that’s just a small sampling of people I am researching for a project I’m working on.
Also, remember that many history books were/are largely written by cisgender people (primarily cis men) who were determined to perpetuate heteronormativity and likely ignored or erased any trans or gender non-conforming folks from their scholarship.
Also who was that one Pharaoh who was trans? I KNOW there was a trans Pharaoh but I cannot remember their name.
Hatshepsut, though idk if she was trans or not , because I believe she cross-dressed instead
Not to mention that the Greek Literally HAD A GOD WHO WAS THE PATRON TO TRANSGENDER FOLK.
Dionysus was raised up for a portion of his life as female in Zeus’ attempt to prevent Hera from finding the demigod. This, of course, failed, and Dionysus watched his foster parents go mad before his eyes (which also is said to be the roots of his insanity/sanity domain), but he decided that he’ll be there for children and adults whom did not feel comfortable with their certain domain
Also in Ancient Rome, there was a group of people whom would bleach and grow their hair out, castrate themselves, and wore female garments (above all taking the female pronouns) as apart of worshipping the goddess Cybele.
Transgender people of all kinds can be found in almost every civilization. They (and possibly me if I figure everything out properly) have been around for a long time, this isn’t some new kinky trend that people just want to jump onto
