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The oldest known poem in world history ("Hymn to Inanna," ~2250 BCE) contains mentions of trans people.

Trans people have always existed & always will.

And poetry belongs to everyone 💜🦉

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The Goddess & The Hymn Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of fertility, love, sensuality, procreation, and war, later identified with Ishtar. Her clergy were male, female, and transgender with the men and women frequently cross-dressing to embody Inanna's transformative powers. The androgyny of Inanna's clergy and adherents is referenced in the poem in line 121 where she is said to have the power "to turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man." The central focus of the work, in fact, is Inanna's power of transformation, which can sometimes be seen as destructive or painful but is always for a higher purpose.
115-131: To run, to escape, to quiet and to pacify are yours, Inana. To rove around, to rush, to rise up, to fall down and to ... a companion are yours, Inana. To open up roads and paths, a place of peace for the journey, a companion for the weak, are yours, Inana. To keep paths and ways in good order, to shatter earth and to make it firm are yours, Inana. To destroy, to build up, to tear out and to settle are yours, Inana. To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana. Desirability and arousal, goods and property are yours, Inana. Gain, profit, great wealth and greater wealth are yours, Inana. Gaining wealth and having success in wealth, financial loss and reduced wealth are yours, Inana. Observation (1 ms. has instead: Everything), choice, offering, inspection and approval are yours, Inana. Assigning virility, dignity, guardian angels, protective deities and cult centres are yours, Inana. 6 lines fragmentary

Hymn to Inanna

The Hymn to Inanna (also known as The Great-Hearted Mistress) is a passionate devotional work by the poet and high priestess Enheduanna (l. 2285-2250 BCE), the first author in the world known by name...
Joshua J. Mark (https://www.worldhistory.org#organization)
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