#transgender history

[makingqueerhistory]

Don't just learn queer history; let it be a transformational force. Give it as a gift to the people in your life. Tend to it as you would a garden, share it when you can, fertalize it, water it. Gather strength from it. It's not a finite resource; it is constantly growing, and there is always more you can gain from it.

Pushing forward the garden metaphor (because that soil is so rich) let yourself enjoy the biodiversity. Don't allow your knowledge to become a pristine, perfectly cut lawn; bring in native wildflowers and watch them bloom. You won't regret it.

#queer history #queer #lgbt #lgbt history #gay history #lesbian history #transgender history #transgender #making queer history

[zinesbycee]

I'm reading a book named "A Guide to The Correction of Young Gentlemen Or, The Successful Administration Of Physical Discipline To Males, By Females" - essentially, a fantasy femdom BDSM book, written in 1924 by Alice Kerr-Sutherland but first published in 1991.

It has some genuinely fascinating stuff to say about gender, and I feel like it's worth looking at/thinking about in the context of Historical Gender Stuff. This 100 year old book has the following to say:

"The truth is that some young gentlemen would rather they had been born young ladies: they cannot admit this openly, because in the male world to confess as much would lead to instant ostracism if not worse; but they cannot conceal it either, and by preferring the company of girls, and soft, feminine clothing, and by flinching during the rough pursuits to which all boys, willing or no, are occasionally heirs, they attract opprobrium."

"Such boys weep too readily for their fellows' tastes - weeping is a great crime among boys unless it is generally admitted that circumstances left little choice - and are hounded for that reason."

"Just as there are girls who had rather been boys - we all know examples of the type - there are boys who, in a kinder world, would have been born into the gender more suited to their dispositions."

"Many young people of this sort are riven with a guilt they do not deserve but have been forced, by the conventions of society, to adopt; they are confused, ashamed and thoroughly unhappy."

"The ideal thing to do would be to treat these cases on their merits, send them to girls' schools, and so on. (The same thing should happen with those girls who would rather be young gentlemen.) Boys of this sort are girls in any case-in all respects save one."

"Most subjects of this sort have a secret name - a girl's name."

#gender #gender history #transgender #trans history #transgender history #text

[femmepathy]

Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994) directed by Alisa Lebow

available now on archive.org!

#Leslie Feinberg #Outlaw #1994 #lesbian history #transgender history #mine #stone butch blues #minnie bruce pratt #butch femme

[starnosedmoles]

Occasional Trouble Passing…

“What do you mean I can’t go in there? You can just suck my sock, buddy!”

found in “FTM Newsletter”, 1990s

#ftm #ftm history #transgender #transgender history #trans #trans history #transmasc #trans man #pride #queer history #gay community #trans humor #queer humor #queer cartoons #lgbt comic #trans comic #inclus #inclusionist #90s #1990s #ftm newsletter

[androgynealienfemme]

“Sex Change Just ‘Legal Correction’”, March 31. 1956.

#the transgender archives #transgender history #trans history #transgender men #trans man #trans men

[transsexual-menace]

excerpts from transgender warriors by leslie feinberg

#queer history #lgbt history #lgbtq history #lesbian history #transgender history #trans history #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lesbian #transgender #trans #leslie feinberg

[chainmail-butch]

I started reading Roland Betancourt's Byzantine Intersectionality because it has a chapter on transwomen, but it turns out that the book is heavily focused on transmasculinity and race in the Byzantine world.

Specifically I wanted to show you this discussion on artistic representation of top surgery and the likelihood that this actually represents top surgery.

Anyway this is really fucking cool

#byzantine history #trangender #transmasc #medieval history #transgender history #top surgery

[omgthatdress]

Just taking a moment to remind everyone that JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier.

The looting & burning of the library of Die Institut für Sexualwissenschaft is an incredibly well-documented event that marks one of the first major events of Nazi persecution of the LGBT community.

Guess what, Jo. This definitely happened.

She has gone further to perpetuate lies about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld that engage with the anti-semitic conspiracy theory that Jews are encouraging LGBT identities to end the reproduction of the Aryan race and take over the world.

HEY! GOOD NEWS! IF YOU DO HISTORICAL RESEARCH, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING REALLY COOL!

LGBT persecution by Nazis, especially trans persecution, is an area of the Holocaust that remains under-researched and under-documented. Historians are working hard to identify trans and queer victims and to illuminate their life stories. If you are at all interested in this, it's something you can do, too. Research for all!

#JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier #trans history #transgender #trans #transgender history #lgbt history #queer #queer history #gay #gay history

[disabledopossum]

#transgender #trans #transgender history

[transrevolutionaries]

Marsha P. Johnson was a psychiatric abuse survivor. In Pay it No Mind, friend Bob Kohler says

"She would go down christopher street, and be picked up midway... they would take her away for about two-three months, and they would put an implant in her spine, thorazine i think it was, that would calm her down, and she would come back, and be a zombie for about a month, and then she would go back to being old Marsha"

We must not erase this aspect of her life, and its important to celebrate marsha as a Black Mad Street Transvestite, not whatever sanitized version of her life the mainstream wants to celebrate. The parts of Marsha that made her such a celebrated and mythologized part of NYC gay and trans life is the same thing that got her institutionalized, a victim of state violence. Marsha was the patron saint of Christopher street, and she was also a Mad, Black, Street Transvesite, and many of the people who swear they owe their protection to her did not fight for her, all of her, the way she did for them.

Make sure you do

#marsha p johnson #anti psychiatry #antipsychiatry #mad pride #transgender history #trans history #lgbt #lgbt history

[makingqueerhistory]

queer palestinian and arab content please

I love this, I will admit I am still doing research into queer Palestine, but here are some of the books I have been recommended to pick up so far!

Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Sa'ed Atshan

Decolonial Queering in Palestine

Walaa Alqaisiya

(Some of the links above are affiliate links, and I will be donating the profits of that)

As for other resources, there is Queering the Map, a project I have been a fan of for a while now.

#queer history #lgbt history #gay history #lesbian history #transgender history #making queer history #answered

[crossdreamers]

Coloring transgender history

You should take a look at Eli Erlick’s website for historical photos of queer and transgender people. Erlick uses digital tools to fix old photos and add color to them.

Visit the site here.

Here are some selected photos.

Marsha P. Johnson  a famous American queer and trans activist. (In the middle)

Coccinelle (Jacqueline Dufresnoy), French trans model, actress, and showgirl.

Mark Weston transitioned in 1936.

One of Christer Strömholm’s 1960s photos of unnamed Parisian trans women.

One of Katsumi Watanabe photos of Japanese transgender women.

Four trans activists stand outside Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science in 1921, 12 years before Nazis stormed the facility and burned its books. 

Top photo: Six anonymous German subjects, most likely transmasculine people from c. 1910.

#trans #transgender #queer #transgender history #lgbt #lgbtqa #history #vintage photo

[she-is-ovarit]

Trans medical history and its origins in Nazi medicine focused on sterilizing gay people.

Curiously, I am unable to seem to be able to find my last post I made in sharing Malcolm Clark's posts; it seems to have been removed. I would like to share Tumblr's anti-terrorism clause: "We don't tolerate content that promotes, encourages, or incites acts of terrorism. That includes content which supports or celebrates terrorist organizations, their leaders, or associated violent activities". I would also like to take a moment to recognize that Tumblr promotes and supports quite a lot of "gender affirmation" and trans healthcare related content. As a lesbian who is Jewish, I would also would like to express my appreciation for Tumblr's anti hate speech clause, which describes not promoting violence and hatred among several groups, which I hope includes homosexual people and Jewish people. I hope that Tumblr staff are not removing anti-Nazi posts made by homosexual and/or Jewish people that educate people on some of the origins and horrors of the Holocaust and conversion therapy.

Moving forward, I as a Jewish lesbian would love to share with you important history regarding the oppression of Jewish people and same-sex attracted people as described by Malcolm Clark:

(Link: https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php)

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20181226033626/http://www.transmediawatch.org/timeline.html

Edit: Here is an archived webpage of Malcolm Clark's thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20230925022852/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1662967081191497728.html

#Jewish history #Gay history #Trans history #Transgender history #magnus hirschfeld #Holocaust #genocide #transgender #lgb #lgbt #trans #gender #lesbian #lgbtq #gender ideology #trans healthcare #trans medicine #gender affirming care #MtF #FtM #transmasc #transfemme #transmasculine #transfeminine #enby #non-binary #gay history #gay rights #conversion therapy #jumblr

[androgynealienfemme]

"Although important discontinuities separate lesbian butch experience and female-to-male transsexual experience, there are also significant points of connection. Some butches are psychologically indistinguishable from female-to-male transsexuals, except for the identities they choose and the extent to which they are willing or able to alter their bodies. Many FTM's live as butches before adopting transsexual or male identities. Some individuals explore each identity before choosing one that is more meaningful for them, and others use both categories to interpret and organize their experience. The boundaries between the categories of butch and transsexual are permeable."

-"Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries" by Gayle Rubin, The Persistent Desire, (Joan Nestle) (1992)

#lesbians #lesbianism #trans men #transgender #gender stuff #lgbt #lgbtq+ #lgbt history #lesbian history #transgender history #transgender men #FTM #butch #history #the persistent desire #this section was so important and more young queers need to read this #and understand our communities have always overlapped #and will always overlap #the lines are blurry and barely there they arent walls

[transsexual-menace]

pins from ihlia lgbti heritage. the fourth pin is the word "dyke" spelled out in american sign language

#queer history #lgbt history #lgbtq history #lesbian history #transgender history #trans history #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lesbian #transgender #trans

[bingqiv]

this is because whenever an afab person in history shows (what we would classify as) a hint of being a trans man, history consistently misgenders them and states that they cosplayed as a man because they existed in a patriarchal society.

also the term transfeminate was coined in the 1656 which was predominantly described people transitioning from women to men. but sure we didn’t exist back then.

#stop infantilising and making trans man invisible challenge #james marinos albert michael i am so sorry #i need to stop reading this because it’s getting me fired up and angry #cass report #ftm #transgender #transgender history #trans history #trans men