{"id":203,"date":"2023-08-24T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbedwards.co\/staging\/9372\/?p=203"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:00:10","slug":"scythian-enarei-priestesses-how-did-they-become-enarei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbedwards.co\/staging\/9372\/scythian-enarei-priestesses-how-did-they-become-enarei\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scythian Enaree Priestesses: How Did They Become Enarees?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scythian Enarei Priestesses: How Did They Become Enarei? We Have Always Existed Transgender History\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0Fn77nxXdA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember the enarei? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-a26969d6c18ba34192e3c60faeafab57\">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 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/sbedwards.co\/staging\/9372\/the-scythian-enarei-priestesses\/\">The Enarei &#8211; The Transgender Scythian Priestesses<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-ed37039c183c0640d034ceb642ce336d\">I answered a question in the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/\">r\/AskHistorians<\/a> thread on reddit they posted for pride month, which was really great of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-80d093461ea9cd467b69c925cd224e96\">You can find the thread here: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/141fhrs\/trans_history_megathread_in_celebration_of_pride\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the question was: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>What, if anything, do we know about the initiation of Enaree? Were preists\/priestesess chosen for their roles in Scythian societies or did they chose to join them of their own accord?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s a great question, and it&#8217;s one we didn&#8217;t address in the original video, so let&#8217;s take a look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video got away from me in some ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It became just as much a conversation about the ethics of scientific research and debunking the claims made by right wing ghouls as it did the enarei, and we get into some pretty heavy topics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at the same time, we still answer the original question as best as we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Works Cited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ancient Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25baHerodotus \u2013 Histories, translated by A.D. Godley <br>\u25baPseudo-Hippocrates \u2013 On Airs, Waters, and Places, translated by Francis Adams <br>\u25baOvid \u2013 Amores \u2013 translated by A.S. Kline <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Modern Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25baBullough, Vern &#8211; The Contributions Of John Money: A Personal View (2003)<br>\u25baColapinto, John \u2013 The Case Of John\/Joan (1997) <br>\u25baThe College Of Physicians And Surgeons Of Manitoba \u2013 Neonatal Circumcision (2000) <br>\u25baCunliffe, Barry \u2013 The Scythians (2019) <br>\u25baGaetano, Phil \u2013 David Reimer And John Money Gender Reassignment Controversy (2017) <br>\u25baJacobsen, Annie \u2013 Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program To Bring Nazi Scientists To America (2014) <br>\u25baMills, Ellis H \u2013 Scythians And Greeks (1913) <br>\u25baRaevskiy, D \u2013 Scythian Mythology (1993) <br>\u25baThomas, Dr. Stuart, and Michael Daffern \u2013 Anti-Libidinal Medication Use (2014) <br>\u25baWoo, Elaine \u2013 David Reimer, 38 (2004)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All voices by Sophie Edwards (yes, even that one) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video was filmed in the territory of the Chippewa of the Thames, the Oneida of the Thames, &amp; the Muncey Delaware nations. 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The transgender priestesses from the Scythian culture who may have used pregnant horse urine as an early form of HRT 2500 years ago? 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