🏳️‍⚧️ The Notorious Kyo 🇵🇸<p>The Public Universal Friend was a Christian preacher in the late 1700s and part of the “First Great Awakening” religious movement in the United States. </p><p>After surviving a fever, the Friend, a former Quaker, began identifying as both male and female, and amassed a following throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions of the US. They preached sexual abstinence, the abolition of slavery and gender equality, and convinced several slave owners to free their slaves.</p><p><a href="https://yiff.life/tags/TransDayOfVisibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransDayOfVisibility</span></a> <a href="https://yiff.life/tags/RedPill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedPill</span></a> <a href="https://yiff.life/tags/transhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transhistory</span></a> <a href="https://yiff.life/tags/nonbinaryhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinaryhistory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://yiff.life/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://yiff.life/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://yiff.life/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> <a href="https://yiff.life/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://yiff.life/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/public-universal-friend/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wams.nyhistory.org/settler-col</span><span class="invisible">onialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/public-universal-friend/</span></a></p>