Teed Rockwell
1 min readMay 30, 2023

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In India, transwomen have their own goddess named Bahuchara Matas who protects them. Many people in India are ambivalent about transpeople at best, but they hesitate to persecute them because of the protection given by this goddess. They are as accepted as performers at traditional weddings, and live in their own spiritual communities.

The Greeks had a myth about transmen in the story of Tiresias. he saw two snakes copulating, and killed the male, at which point he turned into a woman. years later, he saw another pair of copulating snakes, killed the female, and turned back into a man. when Zeus and Hera had a dispute about which one ignored enjoyed intercourse more, they agreed to let Tiresias decide, as he had experienced both. When he said women enjoyed intercourse more, she blinded Tiresias. Zeus compensated him by turning him into a prophet, who could see what other people could not. He was the one who told Oedipus that he had killed his father and married his mother.

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Teed Rockwell
Teed Rockwell

Written by Teed Rockwell

I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male Heterosexual cisgendered over-educated able-bodied affluent and thin. Hope to learn from those living on the margins.

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