Transgender Aphrodite

In the oldest forms of aphrodite's worship, on cyprus, ancient writers tell us of mystery cults that depicted aphrodite as perhaps gender non bionary, intersex, or even as a transgender woman. I came across this in my research for the cult of Aphrodite episode. Betny hughes mentions a transgender aphrodite in her book, venus and aphrodite, a biography of desire. And i just had to know more about what benny huges was talking about in her book. We know that there isn't a word for transgender in the cultures we're looking at, and that gender identities don't line up exactly. Some of the