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Sorry, turns out we HAVE to burn all these records to fit chud preconceptions ๐
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How many people in history never expressed their trans nature due to stigma? How many did express it and it was suppressed by others at the time due to stigma? How many did express it and historians have since downplayed it due to stigma? For that matter, how many simply lived as their true gender and were just accepted for it and never had anything written about them being any different from other men and women as a result? How many lived perfectly normal lives as the gender they identified as and simply weren't notable people in history? We're talking like 1.3 in 1000 people being trans, non-bianry, etc., and most people probably couldn't name 100-200 notable people from before 1900. The likelihood that any of them were trans is already low then (~10%-20%), and then lower still given the aforementioned caveats. So absence of their examples from history is not really example of their absense from history.