“This civilization was the earliest records of humanity. There are references to types of people who are neither male or female, and the records describe how God created these people, their roles in society, and words for different kinds of them. The same time, let’s skip over to Ancient Egypt, shall we? Who also described three genders: male, female, and sekhet. Let’s spin the globe one more time, shall we? and we’ll go to Southern Asia.”
“Is this around the same sort of time?”
“This is actually a little bit later, this was around 400 B.C. There are the earliest records of the Hijra people. The Hijra can consider themselves to be neither male or female.”
“As a whole entire civilization?”
“Yeah. And they still exist, the Hijra people, although oppressed, they are. Next we have seventh century B.C. These are my favorites. The Scythians, who were Eurasian nomadic horse riders who apparently…”
“You’re making this up.”
“…who apparently honored gender non-conforming people as priests and warriors. They apparently also invented the earliest known hormon therapy using licorice root.”
“Wow. Just get me licorice root out.”
“Pre-Colonial Native Americans. Let’s spin that bloody globe again, shall we? Who historically various kinds of genders that all fall under the umbrella of Two Spirit, which just encompasses the different kinds of genders that they had in the communities that don’t fit in the Western gender binary. Now, post-Christ, first century, the year 100. There are records stating that classical Judaism actually recognized six genders. I can’t tell you more information about that because I don’t know it. Anglo-Saxon, when did they start recognizing non-binary people? The roots of you and I. The British. Because in the 11th century, there was a word found called wæpen-wifestre, which meant woman with a weapon, which also people believed to be a woman with a penis and may have been a word used to describe queer, intersex, non-binary folk, back in the 11th century of Britain.”
“So it’s not a new thing at all.”
“It’s ancient. It’s ancient, baby. It goes as far back in time as we know.”