Absolutely living for the fact that in ancient Greece, it was said that when Apollo was drunk he created people with the “wrong” genitalia,, which, first of all, means that 1. trans people are not a new thing, we’ve always been here and we’ve always found ways to justify and explain our existence, and 2. the way that we chose to explain ourselves at one point was, “Yeah, the sun was wasted as hell when he made me, but it’s cool.” and that is fucking awesome
I couldn’t find any sources for this myth. However, other examples exist of transgender-ish and/or intersex-ish stories in Greek mythology. Like Tiresias who was changed into a woman and then back into a man by the goddess Hera, both times for interrupting sex between two consenting snakes, Caenis who was assaulted by Poseidon and demanded to be turned into a man, which Poseidon did to atone for his wrongdoing, and the story of Hermaphrodite, who was merged with a nymph and became both female and male. Or the story of Iphis, an assigned female person raised as a boy who prayed to the gods to be turned physically into a man so that he could marry a woman named Ianthe.
There was also the cult of the male Aphrodite, who was a depiction of Aphrodite who was male. Members of the cult would cross-dress as a part of rituals and in a modern perspective and interpretation, given that Aphrodite was born from the remains of some cut-off male genitals, it’s absolutely possible to read Aphrodite as transfeminine.
Also also the god Dionysus in some versions of the myths was raised as a girl and didn’t much care for it so is a figure often associated with androgyny. And worshipers of Dionysus did and still do often break down cultural norms.
Not to mention that the creation of man is often attributed to Prometheus and Athena. Not Apollo. And the creation of Pandora (the first woman) was a team effort. Also the current race of humans is supposed to exist because an old couple that survived a great flood were were told to throw rocks over their shoulders and those rocks turned into humans.
There’s a lot of really cool gender based myths out there but none that I could find involved a drunken Apollo. If you want a trans-ish myth that’s way older than the Greeks look up the Akkadian version of Ishtar’s descent into the underworld where she is rescued by an intersex/gender ambiguous person named Asu-shu-namir.
Basically.
“Two consenting snakes”.
That made me spit out my drink.
“I cast trans your gender” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all fucking day dude
