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“transgender is a culturally specific term” it’s really not

two-spirit is a culturally specific term. hijra is a culturally specific term. genderfuck, in the sense of a term with particular, intentional political and social connotations, is a culturally specific term. transgender is an umbrella term encompassing a myriad of experiences from any and all cultures should someone feel like it’s valuable to their identity, and people who were born before the word ever got coined can and should still be considered trans, because to do otherwise serves no purpose but to suppress the knowledge that people like us have always existed, and the only thing that can do is harm

hey thanks for saying this in a really clear way

i had asked a roman historian about the roman emperor that may have been a trans lady and the historian tried to tell me that we can’t put labels on historical figures and also that the romans had called this emperor a woman to slander them and i was just. so fucking pissed. better to misgender them or wash away all references to trans people in history than to, what, maybe put a label on somebody? fuck that.

anyway thanks for saying this and if it’s okay with you i’d like to use this if i come across that historian again because UGH

elagabalus/marcia aurelia? yeah lmao i mean rome isnt my area but while damnatio memoriae was certainly used against her there are iirc more than solely roman texts attesting to her gender, so like…. take that as u will, by which i mean she was a trans girl and you can rip that out of my cold dead hands