The article that I decided to cover is called Stop Erasing Transgender Stories From

History written by transgender archaeologist Gabby Omoni Hartemann

(https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/transgender-people-exist-in-history/). This article is about

the erasure of transgender stories in history and how it negatively effects the transgender youth

of the 21st century. The article starts out by telling us about a 78-year-old man, named Lourival

Bezerra de Sa, who died in 2019 and was held for over three months by the police due to

Lourival’s documents not matching the forensic report which identified him as female due to his

genitalia. The news portrayed Lourival as a liar, being a woman that was pretending to be a man.

The western binary notions of sex and gender by not only the forensics team, but society and the

police erased Lourival’s identity as a transgender man. As I read the article further, I was

shocked to see that the number of murders of transgender people in Brazil in 2019 was lower

compared to the murders of transgender people in 2020, with 2019 having 124 murders and 2020

having 175 murders. One connection between this article and the required reading is that the

discrimination between Brazil and the United States seems to be about the same or even more

than the United States. One further question I have is that as gender becomes more in depth,

how will documenting someones gender be conducted? Gender is already super extensive and

yet on legal documents we are still only allowed to put one of three options, an F for Female, an

M for Male, and an X for Other or Undisclosed. We will eventually have more than two sexes

and documenting will be even more difficult.