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Section size for Transgender history (68 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	3,953	3,953	466	466
Historiography	4,690	4,690	403	403
Africa	49	18,810	0	764
Ancient Egypt	2,501	2,501	127	127
North Africa	1,876	1,876	50	50
West Africa	1,298	1,298	111	111
East Africa	6,851	6,851	264	264
Southern Africa	24	6,235	0	212
Traditional Bantu third genders	1,584	1,584	86	86
Botswana	2,091	2,091	69	69
South Africa	2,536	2,536	57	57
Americas	16	71,813	0	2,418
North America	22	53,930	0	1,607
Early history	6,612	6,612	298	298
Canada	10,118	10,118	483	483
Haiti	4,861	4,861	172	172
Mexico	6,078	6,078	233	233
United States	26,239	26,239	421	421
South America	23	17,867	0	811
Argentina	246	246	0	0
Bolivia	729	729	23	23
Brazil	6,624	6,624	265	265
Chile	5,317	5,317	225	225
Colombia	1,126	1,126	86	86
Peru	1,765	1,765	121	121
Uruguay	2,037	2,037	91	91
Asia	11	36,935	0	1,935
West Asia (the Middle East)	156	9,009	12	404
Arabian peninsula	1,624	1,624	106	106
Iran	2,120	2,120	133	133
Israel and Palestine	3,950	3,950	101	101
Ottoman Empire	1,159	1,159	52	52
North Asia	1,330	1,330	126	126
East Asia	18	9,375	0	553
China	5,839	5,839	352	352
Japan	3,518	3,518	201	201
South and Southeast Asia	33	17,210	0	852
Cambodia	487	487	31	31
Indian subcontinent	6,834	6,834	421	421
Indonesia	2,378	2,378	92	92
Philippines	3,038	3,038	100	100
Thailand	4,440	4,440	208	208
Europe	13	71,535	0	4,077
Earliest history	3,349	3,349	56	56
Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and Byzantium	12,385	12,385	641	641
Roman Britain	740	740	40	40
Early Scandinavia, Viking-era Norse	2,913	2,913	122	122
Middle Ages	8,967	15,171	504	1,167
Medieval Christian church	6,204	6,204	663	663
Balkans	2,230	2,230	135	135
Belgium	932	932	60	60
Denmark	2,711	2,711	100	100
France	6,340	6,340	408	408
Germany	7,301	7,301	471	471
Italy	2,397	2,397	75	75
The Netherlands	665	665	57	57
Russia	2,077	2,429	61	91
Itelmens of Siberia	352	352	30	30
Soviet Union	4,570	4,570	334	334
Spain	2,358	2,358	83	83
Turkey	1,141	1,141	38	38
United Kingdom	3,890	3,890	199	199
Oceania	14	8,345	0	512
Australia	3,428	3,428	215	215
New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue	1,772	1,772	140	140
Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and Tahiti	3,131	3,131	157	157
See also	501	501	0	0
References	800	800	0	0
Total	217,382	217,382	10,575	10,575

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Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This section is pinned and will not be automatically archived.

The original version of the article was created for the most part by taking portions of text from LGBT history and creating an article structure with headings somewhat mimicking that article where appropriate. For the section on #United States of America, information was mostly summarized and occasionally copied from History of transgender people in the United States. Other than that, short portions were copied or paraphrased from these articles:

from Hijra (South Asia) (version 725677002) for the section on ancient Asia.
from Magnus Hirschfeld (724927442)for the title of his 1910 book in the Germany section.
from Chevalier d'Eon (723122921) for the section on France.
from Transgender in China (723673135) for the section on China.
from Gender identities in Thailand (708833883) for the section on Thailand.

Mathglot (talk) 02:18, 21 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Maybe start the article with a brief explanation of transness and the fact that gender norms vary through culture and time?

Latest comment: 26 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Could always frankenstein something together from other wiki articles on gender and transness! Claudius-the-cloud (talk) 23:27, 13 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Talk:Transgender history

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Maybe start the article with a brief explanation of transness and the fact that gender norms vary through culture and time?