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

Between the end of Roman antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages, laws appeared in both the Codex Theosianus and the ...

These reflected early medieval ecclesiastical concerns in regulating ... Once again, we see that these products are cited as remedies, just as in the Visigothic Code. This prohibition is repeated ...

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

To transition without medicine, medieval transgender people relied on changes they could make themselves. They cut their hair, put on different clothes, changed their names, and found new places ...