• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The concept of being trans is a relatively new thing, by historical timelines.

    The historical record for what we would now call transgender people goes back over 4,000 to Ancient Babylon. And that’s just the written historical record.

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Yeah, we just called trans folk hermaphrodites or transexuals or some other words than we use now. Language has been fluid but the concept is not new. Hell, I grew up familiar with it and I was pretty naive.

      • Auli@lemmy.ca
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        10 days ago

        Hermaphrodites are a completely different thing. They are not trans, well I guess they could be but hermaphrodite is not what people used to call trans people.