it's pretty weird that "transvestite" was the first trans- word (iirc) but now people like those originally described by that term are seen as either (fetishistic) transphobes or cis people cosplaying trans people. like being transgender as in "has a different gender identity than the one they were assigned at birth" is only one way to be trans.
and transvestites still exist. transsexuals still exist. transgenders who identify with what they were assigned at birth but otherwise defy gendered expectations exist. transness is so incredibly varied and no trans person is harming any other by just trying to exist as their authentic self. imo literally anyone who does gender queerly can be trans and is impacted by transphobia.
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“Male-to-female transgender that doesn't appear to have a special religious significance has been reported in the pastoral Nandi of Kenya, the Dinka and Nuer of the Sudan, the agricultural Konso and Amhara of Ethiopia, the Ottoro of Nubia, the Fanti of Ghana, the Ovimbundu of Angola, the Thonga farmers of Zimbabwe, the Tanala and Bara of Madagascar, the Wolof of Senegal, and the Lango, Iteso, Gisu, and Sebei of Uganda. (Construction)
Cross-dressing is still a feature in Brazilian and Haitian ceremonies derived from West African religions. (Construction)
The Chukchee, Kamchadal, Koryak, and Inuit--all Native peoples of the Artic Basin--had male shamans who dressed as women.
"In India, the Vallabha sect, devotees of Kirshna, dressed as women. ...Reports, of the 1870s and 1930s, describe the priests (bissu) of the Celebes who live and dress as women." (Dressing Up)
In his ground-breaking book The Golden Bough, James Frazier noted that in the Pelew Islands, "a goddess chooses a man, not a woman, for her minister and her inspired mouthpiece. ...He wears female attire, he carries a piece of gold on his neck, he labors like a woman in the Tano field."
Frazier reported that this custom was widespread among indigenous peoples.” ---Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Liberation
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Oh my god this transvestite has captured my heart, please step on me 🛐🛐🙏✨✨
it's just a sketch (gods my doodles looks so bad sometimes
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Yes he was a transvestite; as in he did not literally consider himself a woman like modern trans women do. I thought y’all were extremely concerned with how people saw themselves and how important it is, no matter what other people think? But then you label a historical person as something they never identified with? He even calls himself gay in that very same excerpt. But by your standards (ie if he actually considered himself a woman) he would be straight, you’re actively disproving your own point.
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today is 21 years since Merlinka, one of the first completely out in the open trans woman in Yugoslavia, was murdered in Belgrade. the two men accused of killing her were never charged due to the supposed lack of evidence and a monument dedicated to her last year was quickly vandalized after it's reveal. she was an icon of 90s pop media and starred in three movies: Beograde, dobro jutro, Lijepe žene prolaze kroz grad and Marble ass. she also wrote an autobiography Terezin sin shortly before her untimely death at 44 years of age
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sorry to break it out to yall but i look like this
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