This reminds me of Cavalier d’Éon who lived half of her life as a man and half as a woman and was a spy and master sword fighter in the 1700’s
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If you haven’t, you might also enjoy reading about Catalina de Erauso/Francisco de Loyola, the “lieutenant nun,” from whom we actually have an autobiography. They killed one of their own brothers in a duel, possibly in a dispute over a woman.
I love and respect all of my trans sisters and brothers, but I have to admit that I am as uncomfortable with ascribing the transgender label to long-dead historical figures as I am uncomfortable, being on the autism spectrum, with claims that people like Einstein were autistic.
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It just seems to easy to retrospectively look at a person who can no longer speak for herself or himself and assign a label post-mortem, in order to further our own political goals. It is distasteful when there are so many still-living transgender heroes that we can laud.
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We’ve been told we have to assume every historical or literary figure was straight and cis unless explicitly told otherwise for a long time, and I think it’s fair to have a period of scholarship where we are allowed to decide everyone is queer.
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Assuming they were NOT trans or NB is equally unsupported, as well as contributing to erasure. Of course, the reality of male privilege does mean that historical AFABs who lived as men may have simply been trying to avoid the restrictions women faced. de Erauso (cont)
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de Erauso continued to live as a man even after her assigned sex was uncovered and made public, which lends credence to the idea that they may have identified as male if presented with that as a possibility.
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They used both male and female pronouns during their lifetime and it is 100% accurate to consider them GNC and use neutral pronouns based on their actual reported life. Whether they would have considered themselves binary trans is unknowable, but I never claimed they did.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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