#hermaphroditus

Aphroditos~

Aphroditos (or Aphroditus) is a masculine version of Aphrodite originating in Cyprus and celebrated in Athens. He was usually portrayed as having a more female shape and clothing, while also having a phallus, hence having a male name. (You know ancient Greeks and their lack of understanding of trans people, but I digress.) Later on, it seems that Aphroditos may have become Hermaphroditos, the deity who was the son of Aphrodite and Hermes.

There's also a statue of Venus on Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus, and Laevius says: Worshiping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's, because she is held to be both male and female.

Macrobius (c. 400s AD), Saturnalia 3.8.2

Why are there so many trans women obsessed with “reclaiming” things that were always for intersex people?

(I don’t hate or hold ill will towards the transfem community btw I’m transfem and I love transfems but some of yall are annoying!!)

this is intersexism.