a few bizarre flea market finds from this weekend. yes that’s real fur on the collar. seller didn’t know what animal they were either.
(honorable mention: a case of coffin wood samples I saw over a year ago and still regret not buying)
tortamon
beelko
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.
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
Like, I’m 45, and 1946 is before my parents were born. 71 years ago. That’s longer than the vast majority of the world’s population has been alive. Hirschfeld died 82 years ago.
If you follow @yesterdaysprint they’ve posted scans of newspapers from the 1920s of so-called “boy flappers who call themselves girls.”
Pretty much all indigenous cultures have concepts of and language describing non-binarist gender identities and have had for eons prior to colonialism.
Elglabus, the 25th ruler of the Roman empire from the years 218-222 BCE, "delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles" and “was reported to have offered vast sums of money to any physician who could equip him with female genitalia” – [wiki article w/ source links].
