From Cricket media, this isn't holier than now. I'm your host Philip Picardy.

You could be forgiven for believing an assumption that's taken hold in the mainstream.

That transgender people are quote a new phenomenon.

After all, it's only been recently that society even somewhat allowed for transgender people to be front and center.

There was the groundbreaking role played by Laverin Cox on Orange as the New Black, or the ballroom scenes

depicted on pose.

There were the seminal books and the famous speech at the Women's March

by the activist, writer, and director Janet Mock. During that speech she called the

nation to stand up for trans rights. So we are here, we are here not merely to gather but to move, right?

And our movements require us to do more than just show up and say the right words. It requires us to

break out of our comfort zones and be confrontational. It requires us to defend one another.

Then there's the work of Twormeline,

an earlier guest on this very podcast,

who uplifted the life and work of Marsha P Johnson,

a stonewall legend.

And there have been the many ongoing arduous legal battles and protests demanding equal rights

for trans people, a fight that has met a formidable and hateful opponent in the Trump administration,

and its conservative Christian base.

Perhaps this wave of representation and activism has caused you too

to believe that transgender folks have just arrived or that their movement is new to the LGBTQ community.

But of course, you would be wrong.

In fact, once upon a time in a world before Christ, before Christianity, before colonization,

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