Check out this website: Adventures in Time and Gender: "A young non-binary person and a talking Suitcase travel through time, space and Ikea in search of trans history."
There is an "assumption (embraced by many in the humanities) that transsexuality is a modern construction, something that would not exist if it were not for medical technology, psychological pathology, patriarchy, heterosexism, capitalism, and/or our culture's rigid binary gender norms." But, Julia Serano writes, focusing only on external causes of transsexuality — rather than the possibility that some people really do have certain gender feelings, internally, on their own — "has ensured that transsexuality can only be understood as a form of 'false consciousness' and that transsexuals themselves can only be conceptualized in one of two ways: as 'dupes' (who are misled into transitioning by gatekeepers) or as 'fakes' (who are so distressed by their own exceptional gender expressions and/or sexual orientations that they are willing to go to the extreme lengths of surgically altering their bodies and unquestioningly embracing sexist ideals in order to fit into straight mainstream society)."
(Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, "Chapter 7: Pathological Science," first published 2007, 3rd edition published 2024.)
trans women didn't emerge from the void in 2015
— Ladye Voss 🔆 (@vyrthandi) March 9, 2023
records from antiquity of our existence are found throughout the world
the christian obsession with us also isn't new
augustine--the most normal christian and definitely *NOT* a chaser--was fixated on our inability to spill seed pic.twitter.com/D6nhf8covd
On #TransDayOfVisibility a reminder that trans and gender nonconforming people have been around since the dawn of human history.
— Sacha Coward (@sacha_coward) March 31, 2023
Here is a modern portrait of 'The Catterick Gallus' a follower of the god Cybele from 400CE, their remains were found in Catterick, North Yorkshire. pic.twitter.com/twZ3ygHqL6
I want to call out some names (or descriptions, when names are not available) of Black and Native transfems* whose lives appear in 16th century records.
— ⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ (@greatlakesqueer) October 13, 2022
*(I know this is a complicated term to use. If you got a better catchall, lmk.)
Trigger warning for colonial transmisogyny.
When I was in London years ago, I went to a gallery showcasing photos of transgender people from the 1800s-early 1900s that’d been found/collected from antique shops, yard sales, flea markets, etc. There were so many. They’ve always been here. And they’ve always been magnificent.
— Sarah McGonagall (@gothspiderbitch) March 31, 2023
He actually did shoot two people who harassed him then carried the gun around for the rest of his life. A trans icon. My favorite historical Mexican figure https://t.co/7XHuyfI03B
— plant mami ari 🌱 (@themermacorn) March 17, 2023
One of the first people to receive gender affirming surgical care as a trans person in the US was Alan Hart, a TB researcher who went on to save literally thousands of lives with his work.
— Mx. D. E. Anderson (@diannaeanderson) March 27, 2023
He got surgery to remove his uterus and ovaries circa 1917. https://t.co/lh3DB1jmXG
did you know that the first trans man in US history to receive gender affirming surgery, alan hart, went on to save millions of lives by revolutionizing public health screening for tuberculosis? https://t.co/LTcBqWfgqW
— Margaret Killjoy 🏴 (@magpiekilljoy) March 29, 2023
1921: four trans activists stand outside Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science, 12 years before Nazis stormed the facility and burned its books. The photo is among the most captivating I've colorized/restored from the pre-war era. More from @gwenners: https://t.co/lGcsNZeX80 pic.twitter.com/qHKVVPbxw2
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) March 13, 2023
Gerda Wegener’s Art Deco-infused painting could be a fantasy portrait intended to capture the style and elegance of post-war fashion.
— Wellcome Collection (@ExploreWellcome) March 31, 2023
It could also be a portrait of Wegener’s wife, Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo gender affirmation surgery in the 20th century. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/mK8S2Yd7Uu
Gerd Katter (1910-1995) was a fierce trans teen activist. He transitioned as a child but was denied top surgery in 1927 due to his age (16). He unsuccessfully attempted surgery on himself with a razor, forcing doctors to provide him with the desperately needed procedure. pic.twitter.com/Hqd2xsFhLp
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) April 4, 2023
Michael Dillon (1915-1962) is one of trans history's most influential people. Yet, he's rarely discussed in today's media. An Irish noble, he was among the first to medically transition in the 1930s. He spearheaded trans medicine and became the face of trans issues during his era pic.twitter.com/eoGdxwAgbP
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) April 3, 2023
🧵Trans history often lives in unexpected places. Weegee was one of the first famous street photographers in NYC. Working in the 1930s-40s, he captured an astonishing amount of trans city life while crossdressing laws were still in effect. I colorized some of his photos below: pic.twitter.com/4wRIRBnwyz
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) March 30, 2023
Japan had a short-lived heyday of transgender self-determination in the midcentury. Multiple clinics offered gender-affirming surgeries from ~1950-1965 before the nation banned them. Trans people hung out on the streets of Tokyo like in these Katsumi Watanabe photos I colorized: pic.twitter.com/9PYzwEOTpJ
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) March 27, 2023
Transphobia in the UK is fascinating because for the longest time I can can remember this couple was pretty beloved. Roy and Hayley were a couple on Coronation Street, known for being meek but polite and nice. Quintessential sweethearts. Hayley was also openly trans. pic.twitter.com/v2hJRj9oMg
— Sam Humphreys 🏴🚩 (@RhetoricalHype) March 4, 2023
Sylvia Rivera, trans activist, sits between her partner Julia Murray (right) and Christina Hayworth at the 2000 Pride Parade in New York City. Luis Carle/National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution #TDOV pic.twitter.com/ZmuSnSq3cn
— The New Lesbian Pulp (@newlesbianpulp) March 31, 2023
An Oral History of the Early Trans Internet, Henry Giardina, Gizmodo, July 9, 2019
"Late 20th century snapshots suggest accessibility to those eager to record their lives with automatic cameras on the market and commercial film development labs." — event description at University of Victoria, Ariel Goldberg, "Being with Snapshots in the Trans Archives," December 4, 2023
"Trans and gender-nonconforming people have existed as long as humans have used gender to organize themselves — think Joan of Arc; think Yentl; think many, many real and fictional people in-between — but in Western culture, it’s only in the last half-century that trans people have asserted ourselves as a group. It was only when we became more visible that the onslaught of new discriminatory laws began."
— M. Gessen, The Supreme Court Just Showed Us What Contempt for Expertise Looks Like, New York Times, Dec. 6, 2024
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