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  2. Timeline of religion - Wikipedia

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    Religion has been a factor of the human experience throughout history, from pre-historic to modern times. The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history , which is roughly 70,000 years old. [ 1 ]

  3. Transgender history - Wikipedia

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    The church developed a firmer stance on issues including non-normative gender expressions. As tensions rose between Christianity and Judaism, so did the divide between who was a part of the church and who was not. Those who did not fit neatly into the gender binary did not fit into the church.

  4. Gender binary - Wikipedia

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    The gender binary (also known as gender binarism) [1] [2] [3] is the classification of gender into two distinct forms of masculine and feminine, whether by social system, cultural belief, or both simultaneously. [A] Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women). [4] [5] [6]

  5. Transgender - Wikipedia

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    The definition given above includes binary trans men and trans women and may also include people who are non-binary or genderqueer. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Other related groups include third-gender people, cross-dressers , and drag queens and drag kings ; some definitions include these groups as well.

  6. Transgender people and religion - Wikipedia

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    There are many different interpretations of creation stories in Abrahamic religions in which God creates people "male and female". [1] [19] [20] This is sometimes interpreted as a divine mandate against challenging the gender binary and also for challenging the gender binary. [1] [21]

  7. Intersex people in history - Wikipedia

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    In traditional Roman religion, a hermaphroditic birth was a kind of prodigium, an occurrence that signalled a disturbance of the pax deorum, Rome's treaty with the gods. [29] But Pliny observed that while hermaphrodites were once considered portents , in his day they had become objects of delight ( deliciae ) who were trafficked in an exclusive ...

  8. History of religion - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written. [6] [7] The word religion as used in the 21st century does not have an obvious pre-colonial translation into non-European ...

  9. Religion and LGBTQ people - Wikipedia

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    Symbols of the world's largest religions displayed on rainbow flags at the Queer Easter, Germany. The relationship between religion and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people can vary greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and sects, and regarding different forms of homosexuality, bisexuality, non-binary, and transgender identities.