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Caption: [Hi! Yes! Let's talk about transgender saints. So identifying specific saints as transgender is a relatively recent phenomenom inthe scholarship. However, what's not a recent phenomenom is scholars noting that there are a non-negligible number of saints who are assigned female at birth who, over the course of their life, exhibit some form of gender non-conformity and that is in fact part of their sanctity.
Valerie Hotchkiss identifies thirty four such figures in the book "Clothes Make the Man". And this can be a single event such as with Saint Wilgefortis, who asks God for a beard in order to avoid an unwanted marriage. The beard appears. Or it could be more of someone's entire life, such as Saint Marinos, who was living in an all male monestary for his whole life. And then only upon his death is, I guess we could say, outed.
In "Byzantine Intersectionality", the author Roland Betancourt argues for a reading of the life of Saint Marinos as a transgender man. And he further says that this reveals "the range of sites available to premodern non-cisgender persons for self identification: not as queer abject or aberrant social figures, but rather often within the nominative practices of Christian worship asceticism and empire".]
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