Latest / Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity Podcast
Transgender Parents Day Special
Today is Transgender Parent's Day, a chance to reflect on Transgender and Nonbinary folx who raise children. We celebrate Trans parents’ strength, resilience, kindness, and ability to pass these on to their children.
In Antiquity there were some cross-dressing Eunuchs who were able to have biological children. Others rescued children at risk of dying from exposure to raise as their own. In either case, it was a great kindness that guided their decision to raise children the best way they could.
The transgender priestesses called the Gallae also fostered children who would be trained and…
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