I had lunch with Jamie Agapoff a couple of days ago. We talked about where next we needed to do research and writing in support of the eunuch community.

The WPATH SoC8 has been out for two years now and individuals have been able to use it to obtain proper care. We thought that an article that ...

I originally sent a version of the post below to WheelyFixed. He recommended that I post it here. While it involves minors, it is both from a current newspaper account and historical material.

An article about “bacha bazi” in Afghanistan was published in the Daily Mail on March 9, 2025 (https ...

I just received a copy of Gender in the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Lynn Budin (309 pp.). I immediately turned to the ten-page section on “ eunuchs ” in the chapter on masculinity. Budin argues that the word that means “ castrated ” when referring to donkeys, sheep, and pigs, means “ clean-shaven ...

About two years ago, I wrote a piece for EAv.2 when I finally, after a couple years of effort, managed to acquire a copy of Nadia Maria el-Cheikh’s “Servants at the Gate: Eunuchs at the Court of al-Muqtadir” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2005, 48 (pt.2), pp. 234-252 ...

The Tomb of the Prophet in Madinah is still guarded by a small group of elderly eunuchs. A large coffee-table book celebrating them was published in Saudi Arabia in 2020. The book, The Guardians (written and photographed by Adel al-Quraishi) begins and ends with large portraits of the eunuchs. In ...

NaturalEunuch asked after my post on Origins of Eunuchs and Human Castration, whether China had eunuchs before the Sumerians. In that post, I wrote, “The first documented instance of castration where the person was expected to live and be productive (as a slave) is from the Sumerian city of Lagash ...

Work began in 2017 toward SOC8 with a determination by the board of WPATH on a tentative list of chapters. Authors were then chosen to begin work and drafts ( MANY drafts) were circulated among the editors and authors. Some changes were made in chapters along the way and at least one chapter was not ...

The earliest discovered mention of human castration in China is on an oracle bone that is hundreds of years later than the eunuchs in Sumer. The earliest clear mention of intentional eunuchs comes after trade contact with the Middle East. I will post some historical information about Chinese eunuchs ...

Castration began long before the first intentional eunuchs, whom I define as humans castrated for the advantages that they then provide. Castrated with the intention that they live following their surgery.

Among our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, a defeated male sometimes has his testicles ...