
Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Transgender People
Ancient History Fangirl
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Transgender Men in the Ancient World
The story is found in ovid's metamorphosis. Some scholars see them as stories of transitioning. The theory goes that the ancient greeks and romans sometimes did encounter individuals who had one lived as women, but now lived as men. These stories served as a kind of explanation for how that could come to be.
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