It still makes me sad that for all of human history up until 8 years ago “men are not women” was as uncontroversial 2 + 2 = 4. Even as a kid/teen the rare times I heard about this it was understood that they were a man who believed he was a woman. Nobody tried to push the idea that men were women and vice versa
the rare times I heard about this it was understood that they were a man who believed he was a woman
I never even heard about that. It was men who liked dressing in drag. If someone actually thought they were a woman they would be locked up in the nuthouse.
Same here, but I do remember watching a show in my early teens where the subject came up and they mentioned gender dysphoria or that the character had a mental condition that made him believe they were a woman. Imagine that being on today.
Elmer Belt may have been the first U.S. surgeon to perform gender affirmation surgery, in about 1950.[28]
You can find weird tranny cults that appear much further back, but just looking at the modern west, plenty of people have been pushing these exact ideas both in name and form, for at least about a hundred years.
It still makes me sad that for all of human history up until 8 years ago “men are not women” was as uncontroversial 2 + 2 = 4. Even as a kid/teen the rare times I heard about this it was understood that they were a man who believed he was a woman. Nobody tried to push the idea that men were women and vice versa
I never even heard about that. It was men who liked dressing in drag. If someone actually thought they were a woman they would be locked up in the nuthouse.
Same here, but I do remember watching a show in my early teens where the subject came up and they mentioned gender dysphoria or that the character had a mental condition that made him believe they were a woman. Imagine that being on today.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-affirming_surgery
You can find weird tranny cults that appear much further back, but just looking at the modern west, plenty of people have been pushing these exact ideas both in name and form, for at least about a hundred years.
True, there is nothing new under the sun, I guess I should've said I can remember when the idea that men can be women wasn't celebrated.