Sorry to edit the title, i found the original much to clickbait-ish. Also, sorry it's Slate, which is not always the greatest source.
This article is critical for me, as a trans person, because of its evidence of trans and non-binary people in historical Europe. Examples of "3rd gender" people and trans people are relatively findable from all sorts of other cultures, from Ancient Greece to India, but very hard to find from later European cultures - And I've been looking, because it always seemed like a weird gap to me. Like, maybe it was because of population pressures in those other places whereas the Black Death and other subsequent plagues had removed that pressure from Europe? I was throwing things at the wall to see if anything stuck.
Turns out I was just looking in the wrong places. I didn't even know the right places existed.
It's Assault on Gay America and they still don't have it online. Here's the transcript. KAREN FRANKLIN, Ph.D., Forensic Psychologist: Perpetrators feel that they are entitled, if not expected, to help to punish people who are stepping out of bounds for their male role or their female role. An example would be a young man that told me that- I asked him why he had committed an anti-gay crime, and he said, "Well, this man was wearing lipstick and high heels. What do you expect me to do?" FORREST SAWYER: Another man told her about going to gay areas looking for people to beat up and rob. KAREN FRANKLIN: I was asking him how did he target his victims. He started looking at some of the young men walking by, much like the young men who are passing now as we're filming, and certain individuals he would just say, "Look at that guy. Just look at him. I mean, he's weak. He's an easy target." He told me that "Men, if they don't know how to carry themselves, then they're asking for it."Forensic psychologist Karen Franklin used court records to track down and interview people convicted of assaulting gays to find out why they did it.