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10 Celebrities Who Just Had To Make Transphobic Comments (www.pride.com)
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Carlos Santana, Alice Cooper, Róisín Murphy, Dave Chappelle, J.K. Rowling, Harry Jowsey, Bette Midler, Macy Gray, Kevin Hart, John Cleese

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[–] just_squanch_it@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ever hear of Institut für Sexualwissenschaft(Institute for the Science of Sexuality)?

The founder had described transgender in the 1880s and performed the first document surgical transition in the 1920s!

It might be more visible and talked about now, but this shit is not new

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Yup. The people calling it weird and new and experimental now are exactly the sort of people who burned the fucking data and murdered the researchers and patients.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

It would probably be a lot more well understood and normalized in society by now if not for literally Hitler.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I think the first trans person I ever knew about was Wendy Carlos.

And yeah it's not new. It's just more visible because people are free to be themselves, which is a good thing (but there's still a long way to go for social justice and equity)