Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take ...

Restrictions on medical care for transgender youth assume that without the ability to medically transition, trans people will ...

Scholarship of medieval literature ... first dressed [her] in women’s clothing” and later she took on work as an embroideress and tapster, a sort of bartender. The account is Rykener’s ...

Image Pete Greenwood, the bartender at the Exhibition ... “Alehouses were everyday drinking places ordinary men and women went to,” Mr. Jennings said. “The ordinary alehouse evolved ...

In the medieval church, women's roles were limited—usually some form of enclosure and celibacy, such as becoming an anchoress ...