A Lecture I Would Like To Hear

I go to lectures at my alma mater or to other venues from time to time and this is one lecture I would like to hear about trans monks.

ROLAND BETANCOURT LECTURES ON TRANSGENDER MONKS AND EUNUCHS OF THE BYZANTINE ERA
The Underground
By Isabella Langston
January 24, 2018

Roland Betancourt, assistant professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine, presented his lecture “Transgender Monks, Ethiopian Eunuchs: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race in Byzantium” as part of the Dickson Memorial Lecture Series. In it, he discussed transgender women and men during the fourth and ninth century in the Byzantine era.
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Betancourt analyzed how the Byzantine era dealt with their own definitions of gender reassignment.

“The most surprising thing about this material is seeing, not just the question of transgender identity in terms of transitioning, but also in terms of nonconforming gender fluidity,” Betancourt said.

Wow! This just is amazing, in the third century they recognized gender non-conforming people… so much for people who claim that trans people is a modern phenomenon.

I have to see if he is lecturing anywhere around here in Connecticut.