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transgender/transsexual people of history!

here is an (incomplete) list of trans people who transitioned before 2008 because it is often a transphobe talking point that transgenderism and transsexuality is a really new thing and no one was trans before 15 years ago. so here are some examples for you! also its important as trans people that we know about trans history and our predecessors who paved the way for us :) Also people talk a lot about how trans people live short lives but that is not the case necessarily

Christine Jorgensen was a USA based trans woman who lived between 1926 - 1989 . She was an actress, singer and recording artist who began transitioning in 1952/the early 1950s She was the first person widely known in the USA to have a sex change and she died aged 62 of bladder and lung cancer. Like everyone else on this list theres so much more to say but im doing some quick summaries based on research so here are some links to find out more

Wikipedia page

Digital Transgender archive

Article about her on the national WW2 website

Loren Cameron was a USA trans man who lived between 1959 - 2022. He was a photographer, author and visual artist who created the book Body Alchemy. He began transitioning in the late 1980s. He died aged 63 just last year due to suicide but it is thought he committed suicide due to terminal illness.

Wikipedia page

Digital Transgender Archive

Digital Transgender Archive

Alan L Hart is described as both a trans man and lesbian by different sources (not that being trans masc and lesbian are mutually exclusive) but all sources about him use he/him pronouns so I will be using he/him pronouns. He was USA based and lived between 1890 -1962. He began transitioning in 1917 and was one of the first trans men to get a hysterectomy and the first documented medical transition in the USA. He started taking hormones as soon as synthetic testosterone was readily available in the USA which was early 1920s. He was a doctor, novelist, radiologist and tuberculosis writer who implemented a life saving TB screening program. He died aged 71 of heart failure.

Wikipedia Page

Article about the 1000s of lives he saved

Roberta Cowell was a UK based trans woman who lived from 1918 - 2011. She was a racing car driver who owned a clothing company. she began transitioning between 1948 and 1951 and was the first known british trans woman to undergo gender affirming surgery. She died aged 93 of unknown causes.

Wikipedia Page

Article 1

Article 2

Marsha P Johnson was a USA based trans woman/drag queen who lived from 1945 - 1992. There is debate about whether she was a transgender woman or a drag queen (also trans labels weren't necessarily wide spread when she was alive so trans people often identified as transvestites/crossdressers) but her friend james gallagher sited on her wikipedia page use she/her pronouns so I will as well. She was a transgender, LGBT and AIDs activist and a prominent figure at stonewall though it is not true that she started the riots and that is a common misconception. She died aged 42 of a suicide or homicide though in 2002, 10 years after her death with no new leads, her caused of death was ruled as undetermined. Though there is a documentary on netflix about her life and death

Wikipedia Page

National Womans history Museum

I am going to RB this with a part two because this post is getting a bit long but believe me this is just the tip of the iceberg of trans people of history

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Americans were so correct when they called fizzy drinks soda. Soda is such a perfect word for it

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Weird nerdy canonically or non canoically trans boys of animated TV shows I love u. I love u barney from dead end paranormal park I love u dipper from gravity falls I love u mordecai from regular show I love u fry from futurama

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Why do so many trans ppl think the moon landing was fake ?? Such an insane trait of trans ppl ?? I've met more trans moon landing fakers than cis ones

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Rt - identity policing causes nothing but shit. Ppl can do whatever they want identity wise

Something that i think is equally important to saying "asexual people aren't asexual because of trauma/body issues and asexuality isn't a phase" is saying "for some people their asexuality IS because of trauma/body issues and it might be something that can be worked through with therapy/recovery but they r still asexual" lots of ppl are asexual for lots of different reasons and u can't go around prescribing the ace experience

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Supporting eco fascism and eco fascist organisations doesn't make u a better climate activist btw

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viewing any bigotry as a right wing issue specifically is actively denying peoples experiences. left wing people can be antisemitic and transphobic and racist and ableist. left wing political parties being bigoted doesnt mean theyve become centrists or moved more politically right wing.

people who would you generally otherwise agree with economically/socially might be bigots ! and its often more sinister coming from someone who you respect the opinions of rather than people who you would actively cross the street to avoid.

there are people in our spaces and in our circles who will say the most insane shit about minorities and marginilsed people

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Hmmmm.... I wonder why that could be 🤨🤔🤔 thats a real head scratcher 🤔🤔

(By the way this is not necessarily true and suicide rates both successful and attempts are incredibly difficult to record for a variety of reasons but on the basis that this is true) hmmm 🤔🤔🤔 how peculiar

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Does the USA have trains or buses?? Like sometimes ppl go on trains in American media for special occasions like long distance travel and birthdays and new yorkers have the subway but other than that do u guys have ordinary trains? And I've only seen ppl go on the bus in American media if its like a school bus or its set in New York so I'm gonna view New York as an outsider in this bcs they seem to have good public transport but does the rest of the USA have ordinary trains and busses for normal commuting?

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Can women be twinks? Can men be butch? Instead of asking these incredibly niche questions ask yourself this, if they weren't allowed to do so, who would you have enforcing that ruling? and then, I hope this kind of re-framing opens your eyes about how silly that would be, to enforce as such. But really, this is what they mean when they say "kill the cop in your head." What good does it do you to try and police people more?

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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Transsexual but the hrt I'm taking is a secret and my gender is a secret too

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Tw for calorie counting but I don't mention any numbers or any ED behaviours I just say the phrase calorie counting

I have been calorie counting last few months but today I changed calorie counting apps and you have to pick ur gender at the beginning bcs men and women have to eat different calories or whatever idk bcs of metabolism but I have no idea if my metabolism aligns with my birth sex or my identified gender bcs I have been on HRT long enough for my metabolism to have changed but I reckon I don't have a male or female metabolism and it's kind of a middle ground !!!! So I never know what sex to pick bcs idk what my metabolism aligns more closely with and I read up on it and ur metabolism can change with hrt but idk if it changes fully ??? Or what so I have no idea if I have a female or male metabolism can't belive calorie counting apps hate trans ppl

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the three best genres of music ever created are queercore punk, folk punk and hyperpop. no criticism at this time thank u

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remembering that time I explained on Twitter that Jews are 0.2% of the world’s population and control like 1.2% of its wealth

while Christians are 30-something percent of the world’s population and control 55% of its wealth

so, like, there IS a minority of the world’s population controlling the majority of its wealth

Christians.

and of course a bunch of utter walnuts were like “SEE??? this proves that Jews ARE disproportionately wealthy!!!”

which, like, sure

sure

we have $1.20 to Christians’ $55

but sure, individually we average out to having a bit more pocket change than the world’s average

a couple of things, though:

-those are AVERAGES—it doesn’t mean that every Jew you meet is wealthy, especially because…

-we are such a small population that the existence of *one Jewish billionaire* would skew the average, learn what an average is ffs, if there are 10 of us and 1 is a billionaire and the rest of us have $0 dollars, on average we each have $100,000,000 but in reality 9 of us still have $0 dollars

-y’all killed off a LOT of our poor people less than a century ago which also tends to skew the average

The minority group (in the sense of being less than half the population; they’re still the largest religion) controlling the majority of the world’s wealth is Christians. Sorry about your favorite conspiracy theory.

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Customers at work act like they've never met an ambigiously gendered person before when they meet me. I am getting they/themmed by people who would make fun of real they/thems for using "plural pronouns" bcs none of them can tell my gender?? I got sir'd ma'am'd and they/themmed today. To be fair pretty much all my legsl documents have different genders on them but man. That's crazy