Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Transgender People
Ancient History Fangirl
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The Book of Marvels - Transmen in the Ancient World
A transman in alexandria seems to have given birth, and the event, while extremely prosaic, was still seen as a marvel. Pliny the elder tells us women transforming into men is not an idle story. These types of trans ing stories, like that of iphis and ianthe, are not limited to the book of marvels. In them, girls suddenly spontaneously sprout male genitals, often ripe before marrying. One of them went on to spend his life as a gardener.
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