Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Transgender People
Ancient History Fangirl
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The Romans did not necessarily view people who had been castrated as changing into women when they underwent castration. The picture on the roman perception of gender identity for eunuchs is complex, and i get into it more in an episode that we're going to do specifically on this topic later. They may have viewed eunuchs as a sort of third gender, neither men or women, or as a lower level of a sisgender man. There were levels of masculinity according to this theory. If you're a scholar who studies this, please top pas i. D m, we'd love to have a chat with youo,. there's another interesting thing to point out here about
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