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 –…
The Gallae were the priestesses of Kybele (Cybele), the mother goddess worshipped in ancient Rome. We’ll explore them in-depth today. Welcome to Rome, April 14th, 205 BCE. Living on the top floor of a five storey insula, a Roman apartment…
Was Elagabalus transgender? Maybe. Elagabalus ruled Rome from 218 to 222 CE and was said to wear makeup, demand to be called a lady and seek surgery, but all three surviving sources are hostile or unreliable. Let’s take a closer…
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,”…
There are a lot of anti-transgender talking points circulating the discourse, but one that’s always stuck out to me was the idea that being transgender is just a new trend, a silly thing that silly kids do. Boys pretend to…