Transgender history

Question 1

History of transgender

Answer 1

Was already present in anchient greek stories and old tales about people permanently switching gender. Later, the concept was conflated with homosexuality; female soul in a male body. (ulrich)

Metamorphis sexualis paranoia came then, Krafft ebbing, who saw it as delusional

Question 2

Transvestite

Answer 2

before WWO1, Hirschfield distinguished sexual orientation from gender identity but called it transvestite.

He influenced Benjamin, who with his patient Jorgenson played a big role in understanding transgernder experience

Question 3

Biological basis

Answer 3

Money claimed environmental/parental factors at play wrg trans, but Benjamin verworp dit with neural basis and mosaic features in the brain. Trans and cis genders show different neural basis.