the Gala

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transgender-like priests of Inana were the Gala.  they socially became women, at least some underwent surgical alteration.  they had a role in religious sexual ritual and as singers at weddings and the like.  it's  a   vague, but also fascinating facet of antiquity.  and in a sense they are a kind of spiritual ancestor to my own existence.  https://hornet.com/stories/sad-songs-and-buttsex-the-gala-priests-of-ancient-sumer/