Even though transgenderism may seem like a relatively new situation
From Transgender Wiki
there is documentation from many cultures showing people in gender roles different than birth gender. In many of these early cultures this variance was seen as a blessing being one born of both the worlds of male and female, life and death. giving these individuals the ability to see more than one side of a situation. These people often held positions of medican men/women, shaman and handlers of the dead.
