Stop Erasing Transgender Stories From History

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• portrayed Lourival as a liar:

• pervasive use of Western binary

• erased his identity

• The ongoing, pervasive belief that humankind is only made up of “men” and “women” contributes to the violence directed at transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people.

• directly associated with people’s genitalia and reproductive capacities

• two options of social roles based on the format of people’s bodies

• most assassinated people worldwide.

• transgender people are a phenomenon of the 21st century

• have no past

• death, and pain cannot and should not be the only stories told about trans people

• Hijras in India, muxes in Mexico, māhū in Polynesia, and winkte in Lakota territory

• heavily influenced by the Eurocentric binary

• division of humanity is rarely binary in ancient depictions of human bodies.

• Bronze Age figurative art in Greece

• 3,000 clay figures from Ecuador,

• buried with objects typically attributed to “men” or “women” have also been identified with a different biological sex

• fails to acknowledge the possibility that the Lady of Cao may have identified as something other than a man or a woman

• belonging to the researchers’ certainty, and not to the individual’s sex.

• anomalies” or “ambiguous cases

• EDUCATION IS KEY