Mastodawn

It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.

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Superstars of the Apocalypse Feb 25

@CharlotteEowyn

When did Wendy Carlos (inventer of the Moog synthesizer and who experimented with computers playing music) transition publicly? I believe it was the 70s.

Also, a Bond girl was trans and Playboy, in the 70s, featured a pictorial by a trans woman.

One more thing: because the Stonewall was run by the mob, the cops used the RICO act as justification for the raid. I

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WesDym Feb 28

@CosmickTrigger Pretty sure Robert Moog is the inventor of the Moog synth. Wendy Carlos did offer many tips about it, which Moog gave her credit for.

By her own testimony, she began transitioning around 1966, but was not public about it until 1978.

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Superstars of the Apocalypse

@wesdym I thought she helped him design it. Or helped him design future ones

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WesDym Feb 28

@CosmickTrigger She was one of several players who offered advice about it, though she was among the more significant of them. She suggested touch-sensitive keys, for example. (Keyboard control now seems obvious, but at the time it was not. Some early synth artists such as Brian Eno saw no need for them being integrated, though he often used them for input.)