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Heres a decent timeline of trans history. If you hate wikipedia, there's the citations at the bottom to browse through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_transgender_history

But spoiler alert: transgender people, intersex, non-binary and other genders have been around probably as long as we've existed. As far as recorded history, I'm gonna drop a fuckton of info below if anyone is curious about human history outside the gender binary.

A few archeological finds & early historical texts:

1. (7,000 BCE-1700 BCE) Among the sexual depictions in Neolithic and Bronze Age drawings and figurines from the Mediterranean are, as one author describes it, a "third sex" human figure having female breasts and male genitals or without distinguishing sex characteristics. (The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory by Emma Blake, A. Bernard Knapp)
2. (1st century) earliest mention of transgender/gender non-conforming people: Philo of Alexandria and Marcus Manilius provided descriptions of transgender people during the early Roman Empire books.google.com
3. probable transgender remains from between 2900-2500BC in Prague article on pinknews.com
4. the remains of a person with Klinefelter syndrome (intersex), circa 1050-1300 in Hattula, Finland article on phys.org
5. Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir (1286-1328) wrote a poem lamenting being born a boy, referring to their (possibly her) genitalia as a "defect" wikipedia.org

A list of the 10 earliest recorded gender-affirming surgeries:

1. Karl M. Baer (1885-1956) born intersex, assigned female, came out as male in 1904; surgery in 1906
2. Dora Richter (1892-?) first surgery was 1922, second was 1931
3. Lili Elbe (1882-1931) transitioned in 1930, and was the first known recipient of a uterus transplant in attempt to achieve pregnancy; she died due to complications
4. Laurence Michael Dillon (1915-1962) had surgery in 1946 and was an early user of testosterone therapy, starting in 1939
5. Roberta Elizabeth Marshall Cowell (1918-2011) underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1948 and lived to be 93
6. Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989) began sex reassignment surgeries in 1952
7. Charlotte Frances McLeod (1925-2007) struggled with American doctors; she wanted surgery but they wanted to change her gender identity instead which sent her into a deep depression; was quoted as saying "I was miserable and I wanted to die" before moving to Denmark to have her surgeries around 1953-1954. She lived to be 82.
8. Rina Natan (1923-1979) earliest known individual to undergo gender-affirming surgery in Israel; it was finally granted to her in 1956, after being denied multiple times and attempting the surgery on herself
9. April Ashley (1935-2021) English model and activist who was outed without her consent; it's believed her surgery occurred around 1960
10. Maryam Khatoon Molkara (1950-2012) first publicized Iranian citizen to receive gender-affirming surgeries (first surgery unknown; probably after 1980) In the 1980s she secured a religious decree from conservative Iran’s highest authority to officially allow reassignment surgery for herself and for other trans people in her country

Many cultures around the world have recognized more than two genders:

1. In India (Hijras or Kinnar; since 1226 at least)
2. Pre-Islamic Arabia (Khanith and Mukhannath; as early as the Rashidun era 632 - 661)
3. Cambodia, Laos and mostly Thailand (Kathoey; since at least 1296)
4. Albanian society, Kosovo and Montenegro (Burrnesha; documented in 1800s but can be traced back to the 1400s)
5. the Bugis of Sulawesi recognize five genders (Makkunrai, Oroané, Bissu, Calabai, and Calalai)
6. Southern Mexico/Zapotec culture (Muxe)
7. the Philippines (Bakla; prior to the Spanish colonial period)
8. Italy (Femminiello; since at least 1740/1760, see: Il femminiello, painted by Giuseppe Bonito)
9. Japan (in writings since at least the Edo Period)
10. the Diné aka. Navajo (Nádleehi)
11. the Zuni (Lhamana)
12. many various indigenous american tribes (the Two Spirited)
13. Igbo people of Nigeria (documented in the 15th century)
14. pre-colonial Inca civilization in Peru (Quariwarmi)
15. Native Hawaiian and Tahitian (Māhū; pre-colonial, but first published mention in 1789)
16. the Itelmens of Siberia (Koekchuch; first recorded in the late 18th century)

There's so much more, but I'm tired now lol. Hopefully I made my point, which is we have a fuckton of lgbt+ history that no one knows about cause it's not taught. It doesn't help that the anti-lgbt+ propaganda likes to postulate that this is all some new-fangled fad, which it is clearly not. It's our history.