I tried reading a book yesterday (via Questia) entitled
Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins and I learned more about narcolepsy than anything (to be fair I'm far more interested in history than social studies.) Thankfully the author handled the subject responsibly, so the practice of women "becoming" men (adoption of male dress and traditional responsibilities, vows of celibacy, etc.) in pastoral highlands as a way to escape a highly patriarchal culture and to avenge the death of a male family member wasn't transformed into "the earliest recorded date of transsexual liberation in Albania can be sketched back to..."
If there's ever a Wikipedia article on Transsexualism in Albania I'm quite sure some activist editor will go around proclaiming them as wonderful examples and anyone who dares question such a thing labeled as homophobic, transphobic, bigoted, etc. Sorta how some pedophilia-apologist Wikipedian once made an article about "Albanian pederasty" with content insinuating that every Gheg highlander was ready to start going around buggering children as an integral practice of tribal life.
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