Quote Originally Posted by Recherché View Post
Depending on how you define transgender then the Gala priests of ancient Sumer might qualify. They could be either sex but were socially treated as neither strictly male nor strictly female. Some had female wives but went by women's names. Some dressed in women's clothing, some wore women's clothes on one side of their body and men's clothes on the other side. I don't think we know any by name or if they would consider themselves exactly transgender but there have been humans who don't fit either gender category exactly since before writing.

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Wow. That's neat.

Thanks for letting me know!