• VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    There has been transgender people way before capitalism was invented. Just search for the priestess of the goddess Asherah as an example. It’s like people always forget that history existed before the Industrial Revolution for some reason when it suits them.

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      and Enarree were trans of the Scythian/Saka peoples, they were shamans of a fertilty goddess and were seen as nonbinary or women depending on historical accounts. One of primary Greek exports into the area was licorice root, a phytoestrogen, and Enarree would drink pregnant mares urine, a potent compound for estrogen