Wendy Carlos rule

When you're on the right side of history it's better to leave history intact. It shows what you had to fight. When you're on the wrong side you need it destroyed, so people don't realize how bad you are.

Eh, this is a bit of a half-thruth. Ancient Romans did not really categorize by sexual preference, but by gender roles taken on during sex. They basically had a penetrator-penetrated dichotomy, and taking on a "female" role was definitely shameful for men in their society, and taking on a "male" role as a woman would have been seen as a pretty big transgression, too.

This more or less continued into medieval and early modern times, until homosexuality was understood and categorized as an identity and concept. Together with a complete ignorance towards women's sexuality, this lead to punishment of lesbians being rather rare (non-penetrative sex was basically not recognised as sex), while homosexual men were punished for basically perverting gender roles of sex (also for "forcing" a "female" role on another man), instead for viewing them as having a differing identity.

While religion played a huge role to justify the discrimination of homosexuals, I'd say the root cause is the ideological imperative of maintaining sexuality as something to produce offspring, patriarchical dominance, and having women maintain their identity for sexual gratification and reproduction unless they manage to get into a monastery or similar exceptional roles (and an inherent fear of men to fall out of the male gender identity and being objectified in the same ways). That's why this is also not just an abrahamic phenomenon, but has been pretty widespread in patriarchal societies overall, although often with exceptions for "penetrating" men maintaining their status and power.

To be fair that's mostly a case of "even a broken clock is right twice a day". Psychology was still in its infancy back then and they had so few ideas how to actually help people that insulin shock therapy and lobotomy seemed like good ideas. When looking at it with modern knowledge it's easy to say they already knew when pointing at the bits of decent ideas back then. In reality that's cherry picking between the heaps of wrong and outright dangerous ideas prevalent at the time.

Iirc he also pioneered reconstructive surgery for World War 1 veterans

She was not only a master composer, she also helped with the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first commercial synth.

Now i must learn as well, thank you! This is wonderful!

You left your SI in that link. It's a tracking code Google uses to tell who you've been talking to on other websites.

I had the switched on Bach cassette when I was a kid. I thought it was cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0HAWX1TSA&list=PLLICd7vQi7iGUyErozBAwgcr4F49kxiXY

Wait…I exist?

Nah, it was around the time trans people became heavily politicized and their weekly outrage sources told them to be mad about it

If you live under a stone your first exposure might be tomorrow. Still doesn't excuse the conclusion that we didn't exist before that.

intersex people are exactly that - somewhere outside of the binary of the two sexes. Thanks to them we see the clearest example of how gender is simply assigned to a child at birth. Majority of intersex children are forced into one of the binary sexes and then forcefully assigned a gender to match so they can be "normal".

and it honestly comes down to the individual if they see themselves as trans or not, some might see what their parents did to be a forced transition, some might want to detransition from that, some might not

People used to use hermaphrodite as a slur not that long ago for intersex people, as well.

So that‘s what that stands for. I always wondered…

SRS wow

JK Rowling did that not too long ago. (She didn't call it Jewish, but absolutely called it lies and propaganda that trans people and trans researchers were early targets for the Nazis and victims of the Holocaust.)

I don't say this to obsess over the Harry Potter author, but to point out that you don't have to go cherry picking to find this shit. She's a prominent person using her platform to spread bigotry and misinformation.

Worth noting: a lot of the material from that German trans clinic in the 1920s-30s was destroyed by the doctors themselves. Y'know. To protect their patients from the god-damned Nazis.

She was ahead of her time

Oh wow I didn't know she was trans, that's super cool

sociology and psychology and one of the more fascinating concepts.

The fact that people try to argue that trans people simply did not exist prior to a few years ago is amusing to me.