In this first episode of We Have Always Existed ancient transgender history, we won’t be getting into a lot of specifics around transgender history. Instead, this video is an introduction to how ancient historical research works, and my approach to trans historical research in particular.
We’ll take a look at the question of whether or not trans historical figures are actually trans, how to avoid the pedantic obnoxious arguments about presentism in claiming historical figures as trans, and some of the reasons why we don’t have as much evidence for ancient transgender people as we’d like.