Gather ‘round, friends. Let me tell you a tale. Mithradates VI Eupator, the mighty king of Pontus, who, faced with the ever-growing shadow of Rome, stood fast against their hegemony, who year after year, decade after decade, endured both spectacular…
We’re doing something a little different today. We’ve looked at a lot of history so far on this channel, and for a transgender history channel, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. We’ve also done some transgender mythology analysis, which we…
So recently, I made a short out of my video on an introduction to the Gallae, where I talked about Rome’s complicated relationship with eunuchs. One particularly morbidly curious viewer in the comments asked this question: But what WAS the…
It’s not every day we get a news story about a Roman emperor, but here we are. The North Hertfordshire Museum, in uh, North Hertfordshire, has decided to reclassify Elagabalus as a historical trans woman. This is really exciting, right? …
The Holy Bible is far and away the most influential book in world history, thanks in large part to the many centuries Christians spent doing all that conquering and all those crusades and all those genocides. But it’s easy to…
Remember the enarei? The transgender priestesses from the Scythian culture who may have used pregnant horse urine as an early form of HRT 2500 years ago? We talked about them in one of the earlier videos in this series –…
Welcome to Rome, April 14th, 205 BCE. Living on the top floor of a five storey insula, a Roman apartment building, was a far cry from the life you used to lead – exchanging the peaceful, sun-kissed fields of your…
There’s a spring, they say, somewhere in Turkey, afflicted with an ancient curse, though you’d never know by looking at it. In ancient times, travelers weary from their voyage would stop to bathe, drink, and relax, little aware of the…
The 20th century is full of gender nonconforming figures whom we’re only just starting now to give the respect and recognition they deserve. But there are many more figures in transgender history if we go back farther than recent memory.…
Did you know there’s credible evidence that a transgender population of people lived around the Black Sea at least 2400 years ago, among a culture known as the Scythians? Greek writers called them the enarei (singular enaree), which means “effeminate,”…
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