You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

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Back in time if you’re gay? Or trans? Or a woman? Or a person of color?

No thanks.

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Gay? Ancient Greece. Person of color? Just pick someplace that won’t have significant contact with different races during your lifetime.

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what if you’re both?

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Then ask someone who knows more about history than me! :)

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If you go further back in time you can get back to fairly queer friendly societies

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The way your society currently discriminates and segments humans is not universal

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Right?

We’re going on a tangent here, but I feel like Western progressives, particularly with anglo backgrounds, tend to think the entire world runs by their parameters and always has. There is nothing intrinsic to the current kinds of bigotry in their societies. It’s pretty arbitrary and specific, in fact.

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@MudMan yeah this. Threads like this make me really wish more non-western ancient history was taught in schools.

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Okay, I’m trans. I’ll kill myself if I don’t have estrogen pills. When should I go to?

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Okay name a society before the 1950s that had estrogen medication.

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We’ve had estrogen medication since the 1930s. Can you expand on your comment and how it relates to my comment

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