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    non-binary and third gender people) have been identified going back to ancient times in cultures worldwide. The modern terms and meanings of transgender, gender, gender identity, and gender role only emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. As a result, opinions vary
    on how to categorize historical accounts of gender-variant people and identities.

    The

    North American Indigenous fluid and third gender roles, including the Navajo nádleehi and the Zuni lhamana, have existed since pre-colonial times
    .

    Some Medieval European documents have been studied as possible accounts of transgender persons.

    John/Eleanor Rykener, a male-bodied Briton arrested in 1394 while living and doing sex work dressed as a woman, has been interpreted by some contemporary scholars as transgender. In Japan, accounts of transgender people go back to the Edo period. In Indonesia, there are millions of trans-/third-gender waria, and the extant pre-Islamic Bugis society of Sulawesi recognizes five gender roles
    .

    In the United States in 1776, the genderless Public Universal Friend refused both birth name and gendered pronouns. Transgender American men and women are documented in accounts from throughout the 19th century. The first known informal transgender advocacy organisation in the United States, Cercle Hermaphroditos, was founded in 1895.

    Early sexual reassignment surgeries, including an ovary and

    rights of transgender people
    .

    Historiography

    A precise history of the global occurrence of transgender people is difficult to compose because the modern concept of being transgender, and of gender in general as relevant to transgender identity, did not develop until the mid-1900s. Historical understandings are thus inherently filtered through modern principles, and were largely viewed through a medical lens until the late 1900s.[1][2] Writer Genny Beemyn points out:[3]: 1 

    Can there be said to be a "transgender history," when "transgender" is a contemporary term and when individuals in past centuries who would perhaps appear to be transgender from our vantage point might not have conceptualized their lives in such a way? And what about individuals today who have the ability to describe themselves as transgender, but choose not to for a variety of reasons, including the perception that it is a White, middle-class Western term and the belief that it implies transitioning from one gender to another? Should they be left out of "transgender history" because they do not specifically identify as transgender?

    Genny Beemyn argues that transgender history has also been filtered through gay history, identifying Billy Tipton as an example of a historical figure misrepresented by scholars as gay when a transgender reading of his life would be more appropriate.[3]: 3 

    Absence of autobiographical accounts has resulted in historians assigning identities to historical figures, which of course may be inaccurate.[3]: 3  Author Jason Cromwell assesses that if a person of the female sex indicated that they were a man, modified their body to look more traditionally male, and lived their life as a man, then he was a trans man; the same approach has been used to identify trans women. Genny Beemyn distinguishes trans people from crossdressers in the historical record by assessing that a person who crossdressed only in public did not mind exposing their dual life as a crossdresser, while those who crossdressed consistently (also in private) and sought to keep their sex a secret were more likely trans.[3]: 4 

    Beemyn also distinguishes non-binary people in the historical record. They note Indigenous societies in the "New World" who historically had non-binary gender roles enshrined in their society, which enraged European explorers. For example, in 1513

    Panama Isthmus for being sodomites, as they had been assigned male at birth but were practicing female gender roles. Not all Europeans were as judgmental: a matter-of-fact 1564 narrative describes "hermaphrodites" as "quite common". An account from Edwin Thompson Denig in the first half of the 19th century describes a "neuter" gender among the Crow people. Denig said of it: "Strange country this, where males assume the dress and perform the duties of females, while women turn men and mate with their own sex!" Beemyn concludes that European writers lacked the language or cultural understanding to adequately describe the practices they were witnessing. Overall, they caution not to make generalizations about native practices, since third gender roles were extremely diverse and ranged from exalted positions who were believed to have supernatural power, to denigrated underlings.[3]
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    Africa

    See also: LGBT rights in Africa

    Ancient Egypt

    Ancient Egypt had third gender categories, including for eunuchs.[4] In the Tale of Two Brothers (from 3,200 years ago), Bata removes his penis and tells his wife "I am a woman just like you"; one modern scholar called him temporarily (before his body is restored) "transgendered".[4][5][page needed][6][page needed]

    North Africa

    The

    Mesakin), have traditional roles for male-assigned people who dress and live as women and may marry men, which have been seen as transgender roles.[7][8][page needed][9] Trans people face discrimination in the modern Sudanese state, and cross-dressing is illegal.[10][11]

    For the history of Roman and Byzantine Africa, see § Rome and Byzantium; for Ottoman Africa, see § Ottoman Empire.

    West Africa

    By the modern period, the Igbo had third-gender and transgender roles,[7][12] including for females who take on male status and marry women, a practice which also exists among the Dahomey (Fon) of Benin and has been viewed through both transgender and homosexual lenses.[13] Anthropologist John McCall documented a female-assigned Ohafia Igbo named Nne Uko Uma Awa, who dressed and behaved as a boy since childhood, joined men's groups, and was a husband to two wives; in 1991, Awa stated "by creation I was meant to be a man. But as it happened, when coming into this world I came with a woman's body. That is why I dressed [as a man]."[12][14]

    East Africa

    Among some Kenyan peoples, male priests (called mugawe among the Meru and Kikuyu) dress and style their hair like women and may marry men,[15][page needed] and have been compared to trans women.[7][9]

    Among the Nuer people (in what is now South Sudan and Ethiopia), widows who have borne no children may adopt a male status, marry a woman, and be regarded as the father of any children they bear (a practice which has been viewed as transgender or homosexual);[9][16][17] the Nuer are also reported to have a male-to-female role.[7] The Maale people of Ethiopia also have a traditional role for male-assigned ashtime who take on feminine roles; traditionally, they served as sexual partners for the king on days he was ritually barred from sex with women.[18] The Amhara people of Ethiopia stigmatize men in their communities who adopt feminine dress.[19][20]

    In Uganda today, transphobia and homophobia is increasing, introduced in the 1800s and 1900s by Christian missionaries[21] and stoked in the 2000s by conservative evangelicals;[22] trans people are now often kicked out by their families and denied work, and face discrimination in accessing healthcare.[23][24][25] Traditionally, Ugandan peoples were[when?] largely accepting of trans and gay people;[21] the Lango people accepted trans women—male-assigned people called jo apele or jo aboich who were believed to have been transformed at conception into women by the androgynous deity Jok, and who adopted women's names, dress, and face-decorations, grew their hair long, simulated menstruation, and could marry men[9][21]—as did the Karamojong and Teso,[21] and the Lugbara people had roles for both trans women (okule) and trans men (agule).[26][27]

    Southern Africa

    Traditional Bantu third genders

    Various

    Sesotho, tinkonkana in Mpondo, and nkhonsthana in Tsonga; called "boy-wives" in English) who married or had intercrural or anal sex with older men, and sometimes dressed as women, wore breast prostheses, did not grow beards, and did women's work;[7][28] these relationships became common among South African miners and continued into the 1950s,[29] and while often interpreted as homosexual, boy-wives are sometimes seen as transgender.[30]

    Botswana

    See also: LGBT rights in Botswana

    In two cases in 2017, Botswana's High Court ruled trans men and trans women have the right to have their gender identity recognized by the government and to change gender markers; the court said the registrar's refusal to change a marker was unreasonable and violated the person's "rights to dignity, privacy, freedom of expression, equal protection of the law, freedom from discrimination and freedom from inhumane and degrading treatment".[31][32][33]

    South Africa

    Main article: Timeline of LGBT history in South Africa
    See also: LGBT rights in South Africa

    From the 1960s to 1980s, the

    sex reassignment surgery.[34]

    Since March 2004, trans and

    hormone replacement therapy.[36] Several Labour Court rulings have found against employers that mistreated employees who transitioned.[37]

    Americas

    North America

    Early history

    Main article: Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America
    Sac and Fox warriors dance around an I-coo-coo-a person, a male-bodied person who lived in the social role usually filled by women in that culture.[38]
    Non-native George Catlin (1796–1872) titled his painting, Dance to the Berdache; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

    Prior to western contact, some

    berdaches, which Indigenous people have always considered an offensive slur.[40][41] In 1990, participants in the Third Annual Inter-tribal Native American, First Nations, Gay and Lesbian American Conference in Winnipeg, Canada, adopted the pan-Indian neologism two-spirit; this was largely an effort to replace the offensive slur, berdache, as well as an attempt to organize inter-tribally.[40][41][42][43] Though acceptance of this term in traditional Native communities (which already have their own terms for such people in their own languages, if they have roles for them at all) has been limited, it has generally met with more acceptance than the slur it replaced.[40]

    One of the first European accounts of Iroquois practices of gender was made by missionary Joseph-François Lafitau who spent six years among the Iroquois starting in 1711,[44] and observed "women with manly courage who prided themselves upon the profession of warrior, [and seemed] to become men alone", and people he called "men cowardly enough to live as women."[45][relevant?]

    Meskell and Olson write that there is archaeological evidence that third-gender or similar people existed in California 2,500 years ago at rates comparable to those at which they currently exist among Indigenous peoples in the region,

    first migrations of people from eastern Asia and Siberia over 10,000 years ago.[48]

    Canada

    Estefan Cortes-Vargas, an Albertan legislator who announced in 2015 that they are non-binary
    Main article: LGBT history in Canada
    Further information: Timeline of LGBT history in Canada and Transgender rights in Canada

    In 1970, Dianna Boileau underwent sex reassignment surgery at Toronto General Hospital, becoming possibly the first in Canada to do so. Over the following two years, Boileau shared her story with a number of press outlets and published a 1972 memoir, Behold, I Am a Woman, before retreating from the public eye.[49]

    In 2002, sexual orientation and gender identity were included in the Northwest Territories Human Rights Act.

    In June 2012, gender identity and expression were added to the Ontario Human Rights Code, and gender identity was added to the Manitoba Human Rights Code.[50] In December 2012 Nova Scotia added gender identity and expression to the list of things explicitly protected from harassment in that province's Human Rights Act.[51] In May 2012, after a legal battle to reverse her disqualification for not being a "naturally born female", Vancouver resident Jenna Talackova became the first trans woman to compete in a Miss Universe pageant, and was one of four contestants to win "Miss Congeniality".[52]

    In March 2013, the House of Commons passed Bill C-279 to officially extend

    transphobic.[54]

    In December 2015, legislator

    Estefania Cortes-Vargas came out as non-binary in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta during a debate over the inclusion of transgender rights in the provincial human rights code.[55] While the provincial Hansard normally reports members' speeches under the gender honorifics "Mr." or "Ms.", Cortes-Vargas is recorded as "Member Cortes-Vargas".[55] On December 17, 2015, Kael McKenzie was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba, becoming Canada's first openly transgender judge.[56]

    In 2016, gender identity or expression was added to the

    University of Victoria in British Columbia; Aaron Devor was chosen as the inaugural chair.[57] In May 2016, Bill C-16 was introduced aiming to update the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code to include gender identity and expression as protected grounds from discrimination, hate publication and advocacy of genocide, and to add targeting of victims on the basis of gender identity and expression to the list of aggravating factors in sentencing,[58] the first time such a bill was put forward by the governing party in the House of Commons.[58] Since June 2017, all places within Canada explicitly within the Canadian Human Rights Act or equal opportunity or anti-discrimination legislation do prohibit discrimination against gender identity or expression.[59]

    Since August 2017, Canadians can indicate that they are neither male nor female on their passports, using an 'x' marker.[60]

    In January 2018, Canadian Women's Hockey League player Jessica Platt came out, the first trans woman to come out in North American professional hockey.[61]

    Haiti

    Main article: LGBT rights in Haiti

    In 1791, early in the

    genderfluid, and has been compared to the transgender feminine religious figures of West Africa, the area many black Haitians descended from.[66][67][71] Mary Grace Albanese and Hourya Bentouhami [fr] list Romaine among the women who led the Haitian Revolution, while Terry Rey argues calling Romaine transgender could be anachronistic.[71][67][72] Romaine has been compared to Kimpa Vita, who professed to be the incarnation of a male Catholic saint.[65][66]

    In the modern era, discrimination and violence against transgender people is common in Haitian society, though many LGBT people find it easier to be open about their gender within the

    transvestites.[75]

    Mexico

    Lukas Avendano (right), muxe artist
    Amelio Robles

    In several pre-Columbian communities across Mexico, anthropologists and colonial accounts document acceptance of third-gender categories.[76]

    The

    Zapotec people of Oaxaca have a third gender role for muxes, people who dress, behave and perform work otherwise associated with the other binary gender;[77][78][79] vestidas wear feminine clothes, while pintadas wear masculine clothes but also makeup and jewellery.[80] They may marry women or men.[78] It has been suggested that while the three gender system predates Spanish colonization, the phenomenon of muxes dressing as women may be more recent. Juchitán de Zaragoza, an Indigenous community on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, has so many well-accepted muxes there is a myth attributing their numbers to a bag of third-genders carried by Saint Vicent ripping and accidentally spilling many out over the town;[81] one study estimated 6% of males in the community in the 1970s were muxes.[82]

    During the Mexican Revolution, Amelio Robles Ávila began to dress and demand to be treated as a man[83] and, gaining respect as a capable leader, was promoted to colonel.[84] Robles' maleness was accepted by family, society, and the Mexican government, and he lived as a man from age 24 until death;[83] a neighbor said that if anyone called Robles a woman, Robles would threaten them with a pistol,[85][86] and he killed two men who attacked him and tried to reveal his anatomy.[87]

    United States

    Portrait of the Public Universal Friend from 1821
    Main article:
    History of transgender people in the United States
    Further information: LGBT history in the United States

    Thomas(ine) Hall, an indentured servant in Virginia, reported being both a man and a woman and adopted clothes and roles of each at different times until ordered by a court in 1629 to wear both men's breeches and a woman's apron; Hall is thought to have been intersex and is cited as an early example of "a gender nonconforming individual in colonial America".[88][89]

    In 1776, the

    assigned female at birth in 1829, lived as a man for sixty years, and married a woman. Charley Parkhurst was a stagecoach driver who was assigned female at birth but lived his professional life as a man.[92]

    During the Civil War, over 200 people who had been assigned female at birth donned men's clothing and fought as soldiers; some lived the rest of their lives as men and are thought by some to have been transgender, such as

    Memphis Riots of 1866; ten years later, she was arrested for "being a man dressed in women's clothing".[94][95][96]

    We'wha circa 1886

    In the late 1800s, We'wha, a Zuni lhamana fiber artist and potter, became a prominent cultural ambassador, visiting Washington, D.C. in 1896 and meeting President Grover Cleveland. The lhamana are male-bodied people who may at times take on the social and ceremonial roles usually performed by women in their culture, and at other times the roles more traditionally associated with men.[97][98][99]

    In 1895 a group of self-described androgynes in New York organized a club called the Cercle Hermaphroditos, "to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution".[100] They included Jennie June (assigned male at birth in 1874), whose The Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918) was one of a few first-person accounts in the early years of the 20th century which cast light on what life for a transgender person was like then.[101]

    In some cases, immigrants would change their gender identity upon arrival in the United States, especially those assigned female at birth, ostensibly for social mobility, like Frank Woodhull, a Canadian immigrant who lived for about 15 years as a man in California and in 1908 was forced to disclose this during processing at Ellis Island.[102]

    American jazz musician and bandleader

    radiologist.[107]

    Christine Jorgensen in 1954

    The possibility of someone changing sex became widely known when

    Stonewall Riots in New York; prominent activists included Sylvia Rivera
    .

    The 1970s and 1980s saw organizations devoted to transgender social activities or activism come and go, including activist Lou Sullivan's FTM support group that grew into

    women-born-women" policy began, and in 1979, Janice Raymond assailed trans woman Sandy Stone, who had been employed at the women's music collective Olivia Records.[113] In 1987, Stone wrote "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" in response, a founding text of transgender studies.[114]

    The 1990s saw the establishment of

    Pride celebrations, and—increasingly in the 2000s and after—the visibility of transgender people rose, with Monica Roberts starting TransGriot in the mid-2000s to model accurate media coverage of the trans community,[115] actress Laverne Cox being on the cover of TIME in 2014[116][117] and Caitlyn Jenner coming out in 2015.[118] Early trans officials like Joanne Conte (elected in 1991 to Arvada, Colorado's city Council)[119] and Althea Garrison (elected to the Massachusetts house in 1992, serving from 1993 to 1995)[120] were not out when elected in the 1990s; while Kim Coco Iwamoto became the first openly trans person elected to statewide office when she won election to the Hawaii Board of Education in 2006 (and later to the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission in 2012),[121][122] and Danica Roem became the first openly trans person to serve in a state legislature when she won a seat in the Virginia house in 2017.[123]

    Danica Roem in 2017

    Organizations such as the

    Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects employees against discrimination because of gender identity (or sexual orientation).[131]

    South America

    Argentina

    Further information (in Spanish):
    Transgender history in Argentina (redirect) [es
    ]
    Further information (in Spanish): Timeline of LGBT history in Argentina [es]

    Bolivia

    In 2016, Bolivia passed the Gender Identity Law, which allowed people over 18 to change their name, gender, and picture on legal documents.[132]

    Brazil

    Main article: Transgender history in Brazil
    Further information: Travesti (gender identity)

    European explorers reported

    travestis.[134]

    In the 1950s and 60s, gay bars began to open in

    drag balls.[136] The military dictatorship (1964-1985) heavily persecuted and censored travestis and many were systematically pressured into sex work.[136] The abertura period (1975-1985) saw the growth of the various LGBT movements, though the Brazilian homosexual movement excluded travestis for a while.[136] Travestis began to star in television and become household names.[137]

    By the early 1990s, travestis and transsexuals organized political organizations which organized against police violence and for better care for those with HIV/AIDS.

    gender-affirming care, establishing the right to name and gender changes, and establishing non-discrimination protections on the basis of gender.[139] At the same time, violence against travestis has continued in Brazil, which in 2021 had the largest number of trans and queer people murdered worldwide for the 13th consecutive year, and the majority of the population continues to be engaged in prostitution.[139][140]

    Chile

    Further information (in Spanish):
    Transgender history in Chile (redirect) [es
    ]
    Antonio de Erauso

    During the

    Urban VIII, who granted Erauso the right to be treated as a man.[141]

    In March 1973, the first gender-affirming surgery in Latin America took place in Chile, when Marcia Torres underwent it in a Santiago hospital.[142][143] This took place just months before the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, and the new dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet began adopting policies which criminalized and marginalized the activities of gay and trans people.[144] Torres acquired the changed identity documents she sought from the courts after her surgery.[145]

    In 2018, President Sebastián Piñera signed the Gender Identity Law, which allows transgender people over age 14 "to update their names on legal documents and guarantees their right to be officially addressed according to their true gender."[146]

    Colombia

    In December 2018, Davinson Stiven Erazo Sánchez was charged with the murder of Anyela Ramos Claros, a transgender woman, as a gender-based hate crime. Under the Rosa Elvira Cely law, feminicide, defined as "the killing of a woman because of her gender, or where there were previous instances of violence between the victim and the accused, including sexual violence," was made punishable by a prison sentence of 20 to 50 years. Claros was only the second transgender woman to have her murderer punished under this law.[147]

    Peru

    Prior to the 16th century arrival of Spanish conquistadors, the Inca Empire and their Moche predecessors revered third-gender persons and organized their society around an Andean cosmovision that made room for masculine and feminine ambiguity based in "complementary dualism." Third-gender shamans as ritual practitioners were subject to violence as the Spanish suppressed pre-colonial worldviews.[148]

    In 2014, the Peruvian Constitutional Court ruled against a transgender woman changing her gender on her national identity document, but in October 2016 the court reversed the earlier decision, acknowledging "people are not only defined by their biological sex, but one must also take into consideration their psychic and social reality." Following this, transgender people in Peru can petition a judge for a legal gender change without having undergone sexual reassignment surgery.[149]

    Uruguay

    Further information (in Spanish): Timeline of LGBT history in Uruguay [es]

    In 2018, Uruguay passed a law granting rights to transgender people, entitling them to gender confirmation surgery and hormones paid for by the state. The law also mandates that a number of transgender people receive public jobs.

    Uruguayan military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985 will receive compensation.[151] The law also allows minors (under 18) to legally change name without prior parental or court approval.[152]

    Asia

    Ancient Sumer and Assyria

    In ancient

    sex workers took part in public processions, singing, dancing, wearing costumes and sometimes women's clothes, carrying feminine symbols, and even at times performing the act of giving birth.[153]

    West Asia (the Middle East)

    Further information:
    LGBT in Islam

    For the history of Roman and Byzantine Asia, see § Rome and Byzantium.

    Arabian peninsula

    Abbasid periods[157]
    and, in the khanith, into the present.

    Iran

    Further information: Transgender rights in Iran

    Under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, transsexuals and crossdressers were classed with gays and lesbians and faced lashing or death.

    Beginning in the 1970s, trans woman

    forced to detransition, but later released, and in 1985 personally convinced Ahmad Khomeini
    to decree transition and sex reassignment surgery allowed in Islamic law; she advocated for transgender rights until her death in 2012.

    As of 2008,[update] Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation except Thailand;[159] the government pays up to half the cost for those needing financial assistance, and a sex change is recognized on one's birth certificate.[160] Some gay people are also pressured into sex reassignment.[161]

    Israel and Palestine

    Aderet in 2009
    See also: LGBT rights in Israel and LGBT rights in the State of Palestine

    In 1998, Israeli pop singer Dana International became the first trans person to enter and win the Eurovision Song Contest.[162][163] In 2008, singer and trans woman Aderet became popular in Israel and neighboring Lebanon.[164]

    The second week of June is the

    LGBT Pride month. In 2008 it coincided with the building of an LGBT Centre in Tel Aviv.[165][non-primary source needed] In 2015, the parade was led by Gila Goldstein, who in the 1960s became one of the first Israelis to receive sex reassignment surgery.[166] The festival is popular, with over 200,000 participants in 2016.[167]

    Ottoman Empire

    Eunuchs, who served in the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to late 19th century[168] (and were commonly exiled to Egypt after their terms,[169] where black eunuchs had served pre-Ottoman rulers as civil servants since the 10th century)[170] have sometimes been viewed as a kind of third gender or an alternative male gender.[171]

    East Asia

    China

    Main article: Transgender people in China

    Eunuchs existed in China over 3000 years ago. They were imperial servants and common as civil servants from the time of the Qing dynasty until a century ago.[172][173] Eunuchs have sometimes been viewed as a third sex[174][175] or a transgender practice, and Chinese histories have often expressed the relationship of a ruler to his officials in the terms of a male relationship to females.[176]

    Cross-gender behavior has long been common in Chinese theatre, especially in dan roles, since at least the Ming and Qing dynasties.[176][177][178] Today, Jin Xing is a well-known entertainer and trans woman.[179]

    In the mid-1930s, after Yao Jinping's father went missing during the war with Japan, the 19-year-old reported having lost all feminine traits and become a man (and was said to have an Adam's apple and flattened breasts) and left to find him; the event was widely reported on by the press.[180][181] Du He, who wrote an account of it, insisted Yao did become a man, and Yao has been compared to both Lili Elbe (who underwent sex reassignment in the same decade) and Hua Mulan (a mythical wartime crossdresser).[180][181]

    In the 1950s, doctors in Taiwan forced Xie Jianshun, an intersex man, to undergo male-to-female sex reassignment surgery; Taiwanese press compared the former soldier to Christine Jorgensen, who had sought out surgery,[182][183] and the decade-long media frenzy over Xie led to increased coverage of intersex and transgender people in general.[184]

    In the 1990s, transgender studies was established as an academic discipline. Transgender people are considered a "sexual minority" in China,[185] where widespread transphobia means trans people face discrimination in accessing housing, education, work, and healthcare.[177][186][187] China requires trans people to get the consent of their families before sex reassignment surgery, leading many to buy hormones on the black market and attempt surgeries on themselves.[186][187]

    Japan

    Kabuki dance by onnagata Akifusa Guraku
    Further information: Sexual minorities in Japan

    Historical documentation of male- and female-assigned transgender people is extensive, especially in the Edo period.[188] Trans-masculine people were found especially in Yoshiwara, Edo's red-light district, and in the modern era have worked in onabe bars since the 1960s.[188] At the start of the Edo period in 1603, Izumo no Okuni founded kabuki (dressing as a handsome man to tryst with a woman in one popular performance, and being honored with a statue near where she performed which depicts her as a cross-dressing samurai with a sword and fan); in 1629, when the Tokugawa shogunate banned women from acting,[188] male performers took on the roles of women. Some, such as onnagata actor Yoshizawa Ayame I (1673–1729) dressed, behaved and ate like women even outside the theatre.[189]

    In 2004 Japan passed a law requiring people who want to change their gender marker to have sex reassignment surgery and be sterilized, be single, and have no children under age 20, which the supreme court upheld in 2019.[190][191] In 2017, Japan became one of the first countries in the modern world to elect an openly trans man to office, electing Tomoya Hosoda as a city councillor in Iruma.[192][193]

    South and Southeast Asia

    Cambodia

    Under the Khmer Rouge, Phnom Penh's trans community was expelled or killed, and trans women and men were raped, jailed, or killed.[194] Some escaped and live as refugees in the US.[195]

    Indian subcontinent

    Hijra and companions in East Bengal in the 1860s
    First- to fourth-century head of Ardhanarishvara
    Further information: LGBT rights in India

    Indian texts from as early as 3000 years ago document a third gender, which has been connected to the

    fictive kin (sisters, daughters, etc.), and perform at events such as births and weddings.[200][202]

    The Buddhist

    Theravada Buddhism,[206] and between the third to fifth century, Indian Buddhists were hostile to transgender people.[207] These trans- and third-gender categories have been connected to the § kathoeys who exist in Thailand.[206]

    Beginning in the 1870s, the colonial authorities attempted to eliminate hijras, prohibiting their performances and transvestism.[202] In India, since independence, several state governments have introduced specific welfare programs to redress historical discrimination against hijras and transgender people.[208] Today, there are at least 490,000 hijras in India,[209] and an estimated 10,000 to 500,000 in Bangladesh,[210] and they are legally recognized as a third gender in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.[209][211] In 1999, Kamla Jaan became the first hijra elected mayor of an Indian city, Katni, and around the same time Shabnam Mausi was elected as a legislator from Gorakhpur.[196] In Bangladesh, in 2019, several trans people filed to run for parliament, which currently has no trans or hijra members.[212]

    In Hinduism, Ardhanarishvara, a half-male, half-female fusion of Shiva and Shakti, is one of several deities important to many hijras and transgender Hindus,[213][214] and has been called an androgynous and transgender deity.[215][216]

    Indonesia

    A Bugis bissu in 2004

    Indonesia has a trans-/third-gender category of people called

    waria.[217] It has been estimated that there are over 7 million waria in the Indonesian population of 240-260 million people.[218]

    The

    androgynous gender.[219][220][221]

    An all-transgender netball team from Indonesia competed at the 1994 Gay Games in New York City. The team had been the Indonesian national champions.[222]

    Philippines

    Main article: LGBT culture in the Philippines

    Today, male-assigned people who adopt a feminine gender expression and are transgender or gay are termed

    babaylan shamans were respected and termed bayog or bayoc in Luzon and asog in the Visayan Islands[223] until outlawed in 1625 and suppressed by Spanish colonial authorities.[226][227] The Teduray people in Mindanao accepted two trans identities, mentefuwaley lagey ("one who became a man") and mentefuwaley libun ("one who became a woman") into at least the 1960s.[223][228] Crossdressing was practiced during American colonial rule. Singer and actress Helen Cruz was a prominent trans figure, especially in the 1960s, and pioneer of Swardspeak.[229][230]

    Thailand

    Some Thais say Ananda was a kathoey in many previous lives.
    Bell Nuntita, Thai trans woman and member of the kathoey band Venus Flytrap
    Further information: Kathoey and Gender identities in Thailand

    Some (especially Thai) scholars identify the third- and fourth genders documented in the

    Ananda (Buddha's cousin and attendant) was born a kathoey/transgender in many previous lives,[206] but that it was to expiate for a past misdeed.[231]

    The category of kathoey was historically open to male-assigned, female-assigned and intersex people.[232] Since the 1970s, the term has come to be used (by others) to denote mainly male-assigned transvestites or trans women,[232][233] the latter of whom usually refer to themselves simply as phuying ("women"); a minority refer to themselves as phuying praphet song ("second-type women") or sao praphet song ("second-type females"), and only very few refer to themselves as kathoey.[234][235] Kathoey is often rendered into English as "ladyboy".

    sex reassignment surgery, and now performs more than any other country.[159] In 2015, the government proposed recognizing third-gender people in the constitution,[236] but instead only retained personal protections regardless of phet ("sex") which was interpreted to include trans people; a third gender is not recognized on identity documents.[237][238]

    Europe

    Earliest history

    Certain drawings and figures from the Neolithic period and Bronze Age found around the Mediterranean have been interpreted as genderless.[239]

    Near what is today Prague, a burial from 4,900 to 4,500 years ago was found of a biologically male skeleton in a woman's outfit with feminine grave goods, which some archaeologists consider an early transgender burial.[240][241][242][243][244]

    Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and Byzantium

    2nd century statue of a gallus priest
    Further information: Homosexuality in ancient Greece and Homosexuality in ancient Rome

    In Ancient Greece, Phrygia, and the Roman Republic and Empire, Cybele and Attis were worshiped by galli priests (documented from around 200 BCE to around 300 CE)[245] who wore feminine clothes, referred to themselves as women, and often castrated themselves,[246][247] and have therefore been seen as early transgender figures.[248][249]

    In Rome, cross-dressing was also practiced during Saturnalia, which some argue reinforced established gender identities by making such practices unacceptable outside that rite.[250] Romans also viewed cross-dressing negatively and imposed it as a punishment, as when Charondas of Catane decreed deserters wear female clothes for three days or when, after Crassus' defeat, the Persians hung a lookalike of the dead general clad as a woman.[250][251]

    Roman aureus coin depicting Elagabalus

    Women who cross-dressed as men could have access to male opportunities, as depicted in the fictional story of an Athenian woman dressing as a man to vote in the ekklesia in Aristophane's Ekklesiazusae, or when Agnodice of Athens dressed as a man to get a degree in medicine, Axiothea from Phlius cross-dressed to attend Plato's lectures, and the wife of Calvisius Sabinus dressed as a soldier to join a military camp.[252]

    Roman emperor

    provide the imperial body with female genitalia.[253] Despite marrying several women, the Syrian's most stable relationship was with chariot driver Hierocles, and Cassius Dio says Elagabalus delighted in being called Hierocles' mistress, wife, and queen.[253] The Severan emperor has therefore been seen by some writers as transgender or transsexual.[253][254][255]

    Illuminated manuscript from the Speculum Historiale of Vincent of Beauvais showing the story of Marina Marinos (Paris, BnF, Français 51 f.201v); the upper right corner shows the revelation that Marinos/Marina has breasts.

    In the 500s,

    better source needed][258] Coptic texts from that era (the fifth to ninth centuries), like texts from around Europe, tell of many female-assigned people transitioning to live as men; in one, a monastic named Hilaria (child of Zeno) dresses as a man, brings about a reduction in breast size and cessation of menstruation through asceticism, and comes to be accepted by fellow monks as a male, Hilarion, and by some modern scholars as trans; the story of Marinos (Marina), another Byzantine, who became a monk in Lebanon, is similar.[4][259]

    Other Byzantine hagiographies describe eunuchs, who occupied a kind of third-gender status, like Ignatios of Constantinople (who became patriarch of Constantinople and a saint).[260][261]

    Early Scandinavia, Viking-era Norse

    See also: Ergi and Seiðr § Seiðr and gender roles in Norse society

    Norse society stigmatized effeminacy (especially sexual passivity, but also—it is sometimes said—transgender and cross-dressing behavior),

    genderfluid).[269][270]

    In 2017, archaeologists found that the bones of a

    Viking buried in Birka with masculine grave goods were female; some suggested the burial could be a trans man, but the original archaeologists said they did not want to apply a "modern" term and preferred to see the person as a woman.[271][272]

    Middle Ages

    Gregory of Tours in his 6th century History of the Franks, included a story about a castrated man who dressed in women's clothing and was alleged to be living as a nun at the monastery of the Holy Cross in Poitiers.[273]

    A 2021 study concluded that a grave from 1050 to 1300 in Hattula, Finland, containing a body buried in feminine clothing with brooches, valuable furs and a hiltless sword (with a second sword later buried above the original grave), which earlier researchers speculated to be two bodies (a male and female) or a powerful woman, was one person with Klinefelter syndrome and that "the overall context of the grave indicates that it was a respected person whose gender identity may well have been non-binary".[274][275]

    In the 1322 book Even Boḥan, Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (from Provence, France) wrote a poem expressing lament at and cursing having been born a boy, calling a penis as a "defect" and wishing to have been created as a woman, which some writers see as an expression of gender dysphoria and identification as a trans woman.[276][277][278][279]

    In 1394, London authorities arrested a male-bodied

    hermaphroditism that "Rykener's repeated forays into the space between 'male' and 'female' might have been as unremarkable in the streets of fourteenth-century London as they would be in Soho today",[287] while Robert Mills argues officials would have been even more concerned by Rykener's switching of gender roles than by sex work.[288]

    A few medieval works explore female-to-male transformation and trans figures.

    Roman de Silence, Nature and Nurture personified try to sway a child born a girl but raised a boy, who longs to do some feminine things but also long enjoys life as a man before being put into a female identity and clothing at the end of the story;[290] Silence has been viewed as (at least temporarily) transgender.[289][291][292] Christine de Pizan's Livre de la mutacion de Fortune (1403) opens "I who was formerly a woman, am now in fact a man [...] my current self-description is the truth. But I shall describe by means of fiction the fact of my transformation" using the metaphor of Iphis and Ianthe[293] (a myth John Gower's Iphis and Ianthe also took up), leading some modern scholars to also view Fortune's protagonist (and Gower's) as transgender.[289][291]

    Medieval Christian church

    Trans figures and non-normative gender traits were acknowledged by the medieval church, and were often interpreted as expressions of God's plan, rather than deviations from it.[260] Many transgender saints and clergy members were celebrated and uplifted by the medieval church. Trans people were canonized in the early days of Christianity on account of their "extraordinary lives" and the view that they were extraordinarily blessed by God.[294] As the medieval church developed stricter policies and procedures, its view of trans people changed.

    Marina the Monk, or Marinos, was a transgender person in the clergy. Sources vary, but he likely lived somewhere between the fifth and eighth centuries near modern-day Syria.[295] Marinos, though assigned female at birth, chose to enter a monastery as a monk, following his father and saying the modesty and abstinence that came with the life of a monk would protect his identity. He was expelled from the monastery after a woman accused him of impregnating her, but never refuted the claims made against him, as doing so would involve revealing his genitals; instead, he fathered the child and was eventually allowed back into the monastery along with his son. His sex was only discovered after his death. He is named a saint by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.[296]

    The theme of "sexual disguise"[297] was popular, especially in early monasticism. Numerous female hermits living alone in the desert dressed identical to male hermits. Mary of Egypt, who was born in Alexandria in the early fifth century, is one popular example of an "emasculated female saint."[298] In depictions of her after her conversion to ascetic life, both in visual art and in personal accounts, Mary is portrayed as seemingly genderless. When she stripped herself of all aspects of her previous identity, she also seemed to have shed her gender. Thecla, a contemporary of the apostle Paul, shaved her head and adopted a man's dress in order to prove her devotion and piety.[299] She, like Mary of Egypt, shed her female identity in pursuit of a devoutly religious lifestyle.

    Historian Caroline Walker Bynum has explored the idea of Jesus as an androgynous figure. In the 12th century, the idea of "mother Jesus" began showing up more and more in religious texts. In many Cistercian texts, Jesus is described as both the son of God, and the mother of all people. He is ascribed traits like nurturing and affectionate, which were not used to describe men at the time, presenting Jesus as somewhere between distinctly male and distinctly female.[300]

    Trans ideas continued to show up in religious writing throughout the Middle Ages. One story that bridged the gap between secular and religious ideas of transness is the fictional story of Blanchandin, which gives insight into attitudes towards transgender people in the Middle Ages. The fourteenth-century chanson de geste Tristan de Nanteuil details how Blanchandin was physically transformed from woman to man in order to father St. Gilles, being visited by an angel who gives him testicles and a penis. Rather than being portrayed as a transgression against the natural order of things, this transition is seen as a "radiant expression of God's will". Blanchandin was viewed as having a special relationship to God and to his mission on earth.[260]

    Around the turn of the thirteenth century, the church's view of trans people began to change. The church developed a firmer stance on issues including non-normative gender expressions. As tensions rose between Christianity and Judaism, so did the divide between who was a part of the church and who was not. Those who did not fit neatly into the gender binary did not fit into the church. Religious doctrine insisted that intersex people choose one sex organ or the other to perform sexual acts with, lest they be accused of engaging in sodomy.[301] The Cathars, who erased all ideas of sex and gender from their belief system, were labeled as heretics.[302] The church's reaction to the Cathars exemplified a greater trend within the medieval church, one that did not accept rejection of the gender binary.

    Balkans

    Sworn virgin in Albania in 1908

    Balkan sworn virgins such as Stana Cerović are women who take a vow of chastity and live as men; they dress as men, socialize with men, do men's activities, and are usually referred to with masculine pronouns in and outside their presence.[303] They take their name from the vow of celibacy they traditionally swore. The gender role, found among several national and religious groups in the Balkans (including Muslims and Christians in Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia and Dalmatia), dates to at least the 15th century.[304][305] It is thought to be the only traditional, formally socially defined trans-masculine gender role in Europe, but it has been suggested that it may be a survival of a more widespread pre-Christian European gender category.[306]

    Belgium

    On October 1, 2020,

    gynaecologist and the head of the department of reproductive medicine at Ghent University Hospital.[308]

    Denmark

    Lili Elbe

    transitioned in 1930 and changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes.[312] She died in 1931 from complications after ovary and uterus transplants.[313][314]

    Denmark is also known for its role in the transition of American Christine Jorgensen, whose operations were performed in Copenhagen starting in 1951.[315]

    In 2017 Denmark became the first country in the world to remove transgender identities from its list of disorders of mental health.[316]

    France

    Christine de Pisan makes one of the early accounts of gender transitioning in her autobiographical allegorical poem Le Livre de la mutation de fortune .[317]

    The Chevalier d'Éon (1728–1810) was a French diplomat and soldier who appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years,[318] but during that time successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman, and later promoted (and may have engineered) rumours that d'Éon had been assigned female at birth,[319][320][321] and thereafter agreed with the French government to dress in women's clothing, doing so from 1777 until death.[318] Doctors who examined d'Éon's body after death discovered "male organs in every respect perfectly formed", but also feminine characteristics; modern scholars think d'Eon may have been a trans woman and/or intersex.[321][322][323]

    Herculine Barbin (1838–1868) was a French intersex person assigned female at birth and raised as a girl. After a doctor's examination at age 22, Barbin was reassigned male, and legal papers followed declaring Barbin officially male. Barbin changed names to Abel Barbin, and wrote memoirs using female pronouns for the period before transition, and male pronouns thereafter, which were recovered (following Barbin's suicide at age 30) and published in France in 1872, and in English in 1980. Judith Butler refers to Michel Foucault's commentary on Barbin in their book Gender Trouble.

    Coccinelle (Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, 1931 – 2006) was a French actress, entertainer and singer who made her debut as a transgender showgirl in 1953, and became the first person widely publicized as getting gender reassignment case in post-war Europe, where she became an international celebrity and a renowned club singer.[324] Coccinelle worked extensively as an activist on behalf of transgender people in later life, founding the organization "Devenir Femme" ("To Become Woman").[325]

    In March 2020, Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes elected—and in May, inaugurated—Marie Cau as mayor, making her the first openly transgender mayor in France.[326]

    Germany

    Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen
    in 1922.
    On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.
    Further information: Magnus Hirschfeld, Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and Transgender people in Nazi Germany

    An early reference to transgender people in the German medical literature appeared in 1829, in a brief review article by Johann Baptist Friedreich. This article was also republished in 1830.[327][328] The article speculates on the causes behind a "female sickness" among Scythian priests, described by Hippocrates and later Herodotus; he compares this with transgender cases observed across various cultures.[329] Friedreich's article was followed by a separate medical description that appeared in 1870.[328]

    In the early 1900s, transgender people became a subject of popular interest in Germany, covered by several biographies and the sympathetic liberal press in Berlin.

    Breslau and became engaged to a male teacher, before committing suicide, after which a doctor revealed that her body was male.[330] This made her one of the first trans women known by name in Central Europe or of South American origin.[333] A biography published in 1907, Tagebuch einer männlichen Braut ("Diary of a male bride"), was supposedly based on her diary.[330][333][334]

    During the

    Nazis burned the institute's library.[339]

    On June 12, 2003, the

    hormone replacement therapy, who sued under Article 6 and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[340]

    Italy

    Vladimir Luxuria (2008)

    Traditional

    femminielli, a sort of third gender of male-assigned people with markedly feminine gender expression and an androphilic/homosexual orientation, who remain largely unstigmatized.[341][342][343]

    In 2006 Vladimir Luxuria became the first openly transgender woman elected to the Italian Parliament and the first transgender member of a parliament in Europe.

    In 2015, the Court of Cassation ruled that sterilization and

    sex reassignment surgery was not required in order to obtain a legal gender change.[344]

    Russia

    See also: LGBT rights in Russia

    After 2013[345]—when the government passed a law against "promoting" "non-traditional relations"[346]—Russia became "notoriously hostile" to transgender people.[345][347] Dmitri Isaev's clinic, which provided medical authorization for half the sex reassignment surgeries, was forced to operate in secret.[348] In 2019, a court in Saint Petersburg, Russia's most liberal city,[348] ordered a business which had fired a woman when she transitioned to reinstate her.[349]

    Itelmens of Siberia

    Among the Itelmens of Siberia, a third gender category of the koekchuch was recorded in the 18th and 19th centuries, for people assigned male gender at birth but who dressed as women did.[350]

    Soviet Union

    According to historians Dan Healey and Francesca Stella, scholarship on trans identities in the Soviet Union has been fragmentary and that "a comprehensive history of the Soviet transsexual is needed."[351]

    Following the revolutions of 1917,

    People's Commissariat for Health organised a conference on "transvestites," including discussions about people seeking to change sexes and culminating in a resolution calling for same-sex marriage to be officially recognised.[353] Much of the relative openness of the 1920s was reversed in the 1930s under Joseph Stalin, including the re-criminalisation of homosexuality in 1933.[354]

    In 1961, an interview with a trans woman was featured in the press where she recounted the abuse she faced from doctors, including being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and being physically beaten.[355]

    In 1968, in the

    Soviet Ministry of Health.[356][357]

    Spain

    See also: LGBT rights in Spain

    There are records of several 16th-century people in Spain who were raised as girls and subsequently adopted male identities under various circumstances who some historians think were transgender, including

    Catalina de Erauso.[360][361][362]

    During the Franco era, thousands of trans women and gay men were jailed, and today fight for compensation.[363] In 2007, a law took effect allowing trans people to change gender markers in documents such as birth certificates and passports without undergoing sterilization and sex reassignment surgery.[364][365]

    Turkey

    gender reassignment surgery in April 1981.[366] Rüzgar Erkoçlar, a Turkish actor who was assigned female at birth, came out as a trans in February 2013.[367]

    United Kingdom

    April Ashley in 2009
    Further information:
    History of transgender people in the United Kingdom

    Irish-born surgeon James Barry had a long career as a surgeon and rose to the second-highest medical office in the British Army,[368] improving conditions for wounded soldiers and the inhabitants of Cape Town, South Africa, and performing one of the first caesarean sections in which both the mother and child survived.[369]

    In 1946, the first sex-reassignment phalloplasty was performed by one British surgeon on another, Harold Gillies on Michael Dillon (an earlier phalloplasty was done on a cisgender man in 1936 in Russia).[370]

    Roberta Cowell, a former fighter pilot in World War II, was the first known trans woman to have undergone gender-affirming surgery the UK, in 1951.[371]

    In 1961, English model

    Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2012 for promoting trans equality.[372][373][374]

    In 2004, the Gender Recognition Act passed, giving transgender people legal recognition of their gender before the law subject to certain conditions.[375]

    Oceania

    Australia

    Main article:
    Transgender history in Australia

    The first reported case of an Australian undertaking a sex change operation was an ex-RAAF Staff Sergeant Robert James Brooks in February 1956.[376]

    The Gender Dysphoria Clinic at Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne was established by Dr Trudy Kennedy and Dr Herbert Bower in 1975. It moved to Monash Medical Centre in 1989 and closed in 2009.[377]

    Australia's first transgender rights and advocacy organizations were established in 1979: the Melbourne-based Victorian Transsexual Coalition and the Victorian Transsexual Association; followed in 1981 by the Sydney-based Australian Transsexual Association, which included prominent activist, academic and author Roberta Perkins.[citation needed]

    New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue

    Georgina Beyer in 2006
    Main article: Transgender rights in New Zealand

    In 1995,

    Prostitution Reform Bill decriminalizing sex work.[378]

    Some Maori use the terms whakawahine ("like a woman"), tangata ira tane ("human man") to refer to trans-woman- and trans-man-like categories.

    fa'afafine), has been used since the 2000s to refer to transgender people of Māori descent from the Cook Islands.[381]

    Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Tahiti

    In

    fa'afafine ("in the manner of women") are a third gender with uncertain origins which go back at least to the beginning of the twentieth century.[382] Fa'afafine are assigned male at birth, and express both masculine and feminine gender traits,[381][383] performing a role otherwise performed by women.[380] The word fa'atamaloa is sometimes used for a trans-male or tomboyish gender category or role.[379]

    In

    Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (d. 2006) is a leiti—and still held in high regard, though colonization and westernization have introduced some transphobia.[384]

    In Fiji, vakasalewalewa (also written vaka sa lewa lewa)[385] are male-assigned people who perform roles usually carried out by women.[379][386] In Tahiti, the rae rae fulfil a similar role.[380]

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