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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

rans historian and activist Dr. Kit Heyam brings a fresh, nuanced narrative to the transgender experience by rejecting the idea that trans people’s identities, or anyone’s for that matter, fit into neat and tidy binary categories. highlights stories of people around the world and throughout time whose experiences of gender and identity are more than simply “male” or “female.” Stories from Renaissance-era Venice to Edo Japan to

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