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.
Institut für Sexualwissenschaft(Institute for the Science of Sexuality)
Someday I will have time to write up a full timeline of verified or suspected trans people in history, but until then:
1890 – 1962: Alan Hart, trans man, one of the first known people in the U.S. to undergo gender reassignment surgery, also pioneered improvements in screening for tuberculosis
Source: http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/alan-l-hart.htm
1854-1929: Osh-Tisch, Two Spirit (gender category roughly analogous to trans woman in various Native American cultures, specifically Crow culture in this case), a warrior so badass her name translates to “Finds Them and Kills Them”
Source: http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/osh-tisch
1629: Thomas/Thomasine Hall, an intersex servant accused of fornication, who baffled the court by declaring that he/she was both male and female. Said court eventually agreed (or just got frustrated enough to give up), declared Hall both male and female, and ordered him/her to wear a mix of feminine and masculine clothes henceforward
Source: http://the-toast.net/2016/05/26/intersex-and-genderfluid-identity-in-the-colonial-period/
1322: Poem written in Hebrew by a trans woman, wishing that she had been born “a fair woman”
Source: http://www.on1foot.org/text/even-bochan-kalonymus-ben-kalonymus
440 BC: Greek historian Herodotus records the existence of “enarees,” a term that has variously been translated as “man-woman,” “hermaphrodite,” and “eunuch,” and which likely describes people we would now call transgender
Source: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh4060.htm, line 67
tl;dr: You can find plenty of documentation of transgender people in history long before the 1900s, you just have to look.
1728 – 1810: Chevalier d’Éon, French diplomat, spy, and soldier. Raised as a man and lived as such until 1777, when King Louis XVI recognized her as a woman officially (settling a public debate about her gender). The official story was that she was female, but had been raised as a man so that her father could inherit from his in-laws. She lived as a woman until her death. A postmortem examination found she was biologically male or possibly intersex.
The Indian trans community Hijra is mentioned in ancient text
“The Hijra community has been mentioned in ancient literature, the most known of which is the Kama Sutra, a Hindu text on human sexual behavior written sometime between 400 BCE and 200 CE” [x]
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