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359 Trans-ing Gender in Early America

Published: June 6, 2023, 5 a.m.

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\\u201cPeople are complicated\\u201d is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white.\\xa0What we see instead is that people are colorful because they aren\\u2019t just one thing and they don\\u2019t think and act in one way.

Human identities are one area where we find a lot of colorfulness and complexity. Most humans have multiple Identities based in geography, nationality, religious affiliation, race and ethnicity, and also gender.

Jen Manion, a Professor of History and of Sexuality and Women\\u2019s and Gender Studies at Amherst College and author of the book, Female Husbands: A Trans History, joins us to investigate the early American world of female husbands, people who were assigned female at birth and then transed-gender at some point in their lives to live as men.

Show Notes:\\xa0https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/359


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