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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. [1] He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure.
Transgender history dates back to the first recorded instances of transgender individuals in ancient civilizations. However, the word transgenderism did not exist until 1965 when coined by psychiatrist John F. Oliven of Columbia University in his 1965 reference work Sexual Hygiene and Pathology; [1] the timeline includes events and personalities that may be viewed as transgender in the ...
Mary Jones (born in 1803 as Peter Sewally), a free African-American, was arrested in New York City in 1836 for dressing as a woman, prostitution, and pickpocketing. According to a contemporary report in the New York World , Jones appeared in court "attired a la mode de New York , elegantly, and in perfect style.
Shemale (also spelled she-male; also she-man and he-she) is a term most commonly used in the pornography industry to describe trans women or other people with male genitalia and female secondary sex characteristics (including breasts) acquired via hormones or surgery. [1]
Transgender people are individuals who identify as a gender that differs from the one associated with their sex assignment.In some non-Western, ancient or medieval societies, transgender people may be seen as a different gender entirely, and there may be a separate category for them that is different from the binary of 'man' or 'woman'.
Mary of Egypt, who was born in Alexandria in the early fifth century, is one popular example of an "emasculated female saint." [299] In depictions of her after her conversion to ascetic life, both in visual art and in personal accounts, Mary is portrayed as seemingly genderless. When she stripped herself of all aspects of her previous identity ...
Afrikaans; Alemannisch; العربية; Aragonés; অসমীয়া; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская
The "womyn-born-womyn" intention first came to attention in 1991 after a transsexual festival-goer, Nancy Burkholder, was asked to leave the festival when several women recognized her as a trans woman and expressed discomfort with her presence in the space.