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Originally Posted by Stephen
I mean going back to ancient Greece and Egypt there was even a recognised third gender and many civilisations and countries that had records and history of what in the modern age is considered transgender. Instead of what's considered transvestite of someone just dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history |
User edited content? Please be serious.
Besides, the first paragraph (as Pierre already noted) admits that everything that follows is highly contested. And the following half dozen paragraphs further undermine the entire point of the article by quietly switching to a discussion of
gender roles in history, which is an entirely different proposition to the moronic idea that a man *is* a woman just because he believes he is.
To be honest, lots of us, me very much included, were perfectly happy for cross-dressing men to just get on with it, as long as they actually were aspiring to a gender role, living their life as they chose, and not bothering anyone. But somehow in the last 10-15 years the discourse shifted to the thoroughly modern idea that in doing these things not only had they changed gender in a way that meant they had to all intents and purposes also changed sex, but the rest of us had to affirm that on pain of being accused of bigotry, hatred and whatever -phobia is the presently fashionable insult du jour.