A trans person is someone whose gender identity differs from the one they were assigned at birth. A non-binary person is someone with a gender identity that falls outside of just ‘man’ or ‘woman’. So enbies are trans, but not all trans people are enbies.
And enbies and binary trans people tend to have a lot of similar experiences with transitioning.
disclaimer: not a historian, have looked into this a bit a while ago but might be wildly off base here
not in the definition that we use today afaik, but they also didn’t have the same concepts of gender. there are multiple mentions of half men/half women, but those are mostly intersex people(like hermauhrodites for example). there’s also a lot of GNC people, but it’s hard to tell whether anyone was enby or if it made sense in the social context to be enby.
Do we know if any examples of enbys that far back?
The cult of Inanna/Ishtar in ancient Mesopotamia was known for being gender-nonconforming, and Ovid’s metamorphosis contains multiple trans characters
Interesting cult! I thought enby and trans were very different?
A trans person is someone whose gender identity differs from the one they were assigned at birth. A non-binary person is someone with a gender identity that falls outside of just ‘man’ or ‘woman’. So enbies are trans, but not all trans people are enbies.
And enbies and binary trans people tend to have a lot of similar experiences with transitioning.
disclaimer: not a historian, have looked into this a bit a while ago but might be wildly off base here
not in the definition that we use today afaik, but they also didn’t have the same concepts of gender. there are multiple mentions of half men/half women, but those are mostly intersex people(like hermauhrodites for example). there’s also a lot of GNC people, but it’s hard to tell whether anyone was enby or if it made sense in the social context to be enby.
Wouldn’t Eunich technically fall into this category?