Kate Rheeders

Accounts of transgender people (including non-binary and third gender people) have been documented in cultures worldwide as early as 1200 BCE in Egypt. Opinions vary on how to categorize historical accounts of gender-variant people and identities. The galli, eunuch priests of classical antiquity, have been interpreted by some scholars as transgender or third-gender. The trans-feminine kathoey and hijra gender roles have persisted for thousands of years in Thailand and the Indian subcontinent, re…