World's first transsexual

[JerseyMike]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Anasyromenos_statuette%2C_Rome_art_market.JPG/371px-Anasyromenos_statuette%2C_Rome_art_market.JPG

[jimbo1974]

Looks like a statue to me

[Prospero]

JerseyMike - tell us more about that statue. Where is it? is there a site associated with it to read more.

[alyssaluxor]

is this true? where is this statue? yes more info pls thanks

[GroobySteven]

I can't say if this is a statue of him or not but I did come across this interesting character while googling.
Sounds like he's game!

Elagabalus
Elagabalus' sexual orientation and gender identity are the source of much controversy and debate. Elagabalus married and divorced five women,[35] three of whom are known. His first wife was Julia Cornelia Paula; the second was the Vestal Virgin Julia Aquilia Severa, but within a year, he abandoned her and married Annia Aurelia Faustina, a descendant of Marcus Aurelius and the widow of a man recently executed by Elagabalus. He had returned to Severa by the end of the year, but according to Cassius Dio, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, whom he referred to as his husband. The Augustan History claims that he also married a man named Zoticus, an athlete from Smyrna, in a public ceremony at Rome. Cassius Dio reported Elagabalus would paint his eyes, epilate his hair and wear wigs before prostituting himself in taverns and brothels, and even the imperial palace:

Finally, he set aside a room in the palace and there committed his indecencies, always standing nude at the door of the room, as the harlots do, and shaking the curtain which hung from gold rings, while in a soft and melting voice he solicited the passers-by.

Herodian commented that Elagabalus pampered his natural good looks by wearing too much make-up. He was described as having been "delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles" and was said to have offered vast sums of money to the physician who could equip him with female genitalia.[29] Subsequently, Elagabalus has often been characterized by modern writers as transgender, most likely transsexual.

[maxpower]

It appears to be a statue of Aphroditus.

Aphroditus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphroditus)

[GroobySteven]

You'd appear to be right. I never knew he was T.

[Stavros]

The cave painting of someone believed to be transexual, discovered in the Czech Republic is even older.
First homosexual caveman found

Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remains of what they believe may have been the world's oldest known gay caveman.


http://1.2.3.9/bmi/i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01866/Cave-art_1866529c.jpg Archeologists believe they have discovered a 'transsexual' or 'third gender grave' in the Czech Republic Photo: ALAMY







10:00PM BST 06 Apr 2011


The male body – said to date back to between 2900-2500BC – was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age.

The skeleton was found in a Prague suburb in the Czech Republic (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic) with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs, rituals only previously seen in female graves.

"From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," said lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova.

"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual," she added.

According to Corded Ware culture which began in the late Stone Age and culminated in the Bronze Age, men were traditionally buried lying on their right side with their heads pointing towards the west, and women on their left sides with their heads pointing towards the east. Both sexes would be put into a crouching position.



The men would be buried alongside weapons, hammers and flint knives as well as several portions of food and drink to accompany them to the other side.
Women would be buried with necklaces made from teeth, pets, and copper earrings, as well as jugs and an egg-shaped pot placed near the feet.
"What we see here doesn't add up to traditional Corded Ware cultural norms. The grave in Terronska Street in Prague 6 is interred on its left side with the head facing the West. An oval, egg-shaped container usually associated with female burials was also found at the feet of the skeleton. None of the objects that usually accompany male burials  such as weapons, stone battle axes and flint knives  were found in the grave.
"We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a 'transsexual' or 'third gender grave' in the Czech Republic," archaeologist Katerina Semradova told a press conference on Tuesday.
She said that archeologists had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.
She added that Siberian shamans, or latter-day witch doctors, were also buried in this way but with richer funeral accessories to appropriate to their elevated position in society.
"But this later discovery was neither of those, leading us to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual," Semeradova said.
The Corded Ware culture takes its name from the frequent use of decorative cord impressions found its pots and covered much of North, Central and Eastern Europe.
It is also known as a single-grave and battleaxe culture due to separate burials and the Mena s habit of being buried with stone axes.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8433527/First-homosexual-caveman-found.html