The Enarees were transgender priestesses from the Scythian culture, according to the very earliest written accounts we have of them.
Herodotus described it. Hippocrates described it. Two of the most influential writers of the ancient world documented the Enarees as a real, recognized class of people among the Scythians, the nomadic culture that dominated the Eurasian steppe for centuries. And yet almost nobody knows their story.
This journal tells the story tracing the Enarees from ancient text to modern soil:
Grounded in the ancient sources, but written for readers who don’t have a classics degree, this journal is proof that trans people have always existed.
