Why do trans and gender-nonconforming people keep showing up suspiciously close to gods, prophecy and ancient religion? With trans historian Sophie Edwards, we follow a wildly gay historical trail through the ancient mediterranean to ask why people crossing gender boundaries were so often imagined as closer to the divine.

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0:00 Why Were Trans People So Close to the Divine?
1:00 Can We Call Ancient People Trans?
2:22 The Enarees: Trans Diviners Trusted by Kings
8:30 Why Was Gender-Crossing Linked to Prophecy?
11:50 The Galli: Rome’s Trans Feminine Priestesses
16:20 Ancient Gender-Affirming Care & the Day of Blood
23:15 How Did Ancient Rome Treat the Galli?
28:49 Where Did the Galli Go?
30:40 The Trans Saints of Early Christianity
31:55 Saint Pelagius: The Trans Saint & Former Sex Worker
42:42 Saint Marinos: Exiled Rather Than Out Himself
51:06 Is Transness Connected to the Divine?
54:15 Tiresias: Gender-Crossing, Gods & Prophecy
59:03 The Mystery of the Bearded Venus
1:04:37 We Have Always Existed

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