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"Trans people didn't exist in the past."

You literally destroyed our history to perpetuate this myth. We'll never erase your history, just show how it was a lie undeserving of respect.

It's quite interesting that academics back then knew homosexuality and transgenderism are completely normal and not aberrations. Even Sigmund Freud also agreed.

It's just that society as a whole has been completely anti-lgbt. I always say it is the relic of homophobic teachings from Abrahamic religions. Ancient Greeks and Romans were completely fine with homosexuality until Christianity became enforced in Europe and elsewhere; then later Islam came along and did the same.

Yes. Look up Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and his gender affirming care in early 20th century Germany. The Berlin "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft" was the world's first trans clinic from 1919 until the Nazis destroyed it 1933.

Watch Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate about Berlin's vibrant trans community and how the rise of the nazis destroyed them.

She is the goddess of synthesizers and one of the first people I stumbled upon when I was learning about synths: https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg

Five years ago a friend celebrated the 12th anniversary of her vaginoplasty...

If you live under a stone, that might be your first time hearing that trans people exist.

Already have seen this. I have seen arguments pointing out what the Nazis did to trans people, the first clinic for trans people, and the research materials on it, get met with replies that it's revisionist, fraudulent, jewish, propaganda.

¿Por que no las dos?

If you mean this video, then yes!

As a kid I listened to Walter Carlos' Switched on series, and was the kind of nerd to be a huge fan at the time. Then suddenly Wendy Carlos was continuing Walter's work and claiming she was responsible for everything Walter had done.

I was like ten, and we didn't have the internet or even CDs yet, so it sound like a sibling or marital spat, and eventually the news trickled down they were one and the same.

How dare you forget Sophie Wilson, inventor of the ARM chip (which exists in literally every phone pretty much since... 1997?) 😆

She also partakes in Europython (though not sure if she joined this year, but she was there last year, even though I missed both xD), for the Python nerds.

Yup.

I think a lot of the people currently freaking out about it have been, either individually or collectively, throwing red flags their entire life that say, "I am dangerous to anyone who does not conform to cis-hetero-normative culture," and trans people have wisely avoided them where possible and stayed in the closet where not.

One of my close friends' parents don't know they're trans because they know for a fact how badly they would react. They're conservatives and they're transphobic. It's stopping my friend from transitioning.

Now trans people are in the news and those same transphobic people are wondering where they've all come from and they're reacting in exactly the hostile way that the trans people who avoided them had predicted.

Nope, that's the point.