Frankly, while I am not religious, I think a certain verse in Matthew about eunuchs is a lot more important than most people realize to understanding the phenomena. Gender Atypicality was documented in ~200ce and LAUDED!
Not sure that verse of
Matthew has anything to do with the contemporary concept of gender. That’s quite a stretch; like the folks saying Joan of Arc was trans or non-binary because she wore male clothes.
It's literally a discussion that people shouldn't judge each other for wanting to be eunuchs.
People bucking the norms on gender go back... Forever.
That doesn’t mean they’re changing their gender. It means they’re denying themselves earthly sexual pleasure. Transgenderism was simply unknown in the Roman world.
It means their gender wasn't changed, it was
always assumed wrongly.
In the roman world, people didn't carry cards that proclaimed them men or women, and have to identify themselves as such before leaving and going somewhere else, for the most part.
You could just go somewhere, live quietly, and nobody would ask questions about social role changes or personal representation, and generally take people at face value. For the most part. I suspect some people such as yourself existed even then.
As can be seen in documents about eastern culture, though, we can clearly see many instances of social transition. It's a common archetype throughout history.
You are hopelessly misinformed if you don't think that trans ideations are absent from long history.
en.m.wikipedia.org
I might recommend you realize that ancient "third gender" ideations are what you would call "non-binary" or "genderqueer".
It's older than the human species.
Now being gay or trans is a choice, is it?
