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PerfectSociety wrote

This is very interesting. Do you have any reading material regarding the experiences of trans people in such cultures around the world?

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feralive OP wrote (edited )

In pre-industrial cultures? Sure!

Firsthand accounts from European explorers detail not only homosexuality among the Native Americans, but transsexuality, as well. Transsexuals in the Americas were known as "two-spirits," the idea being that they had a spirit within them for each gender. Two-spirits not only faced no discrimination in the New World but were treated with a form of respect that is somewhat rare even today: They were fully considered to be the gender they self-identified as, and not their biological sex. Even spiritual and political leaders could be transgendered, and their people wouldn't bat an eye: Leaders like We'wah, a cultural ambassador to Washington for the Zuni Nation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130626055424/https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/momentum-mounts-to-again-embrace-two-spirits-35837

http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=1176

http://bilerico.lgbtqnation.com/2008/02/transgender_history_trans_expression_in.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20070127074550/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/berdache.html

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