I was in a class recently and we were discussing the nature of minorities in Nazi Germany outside of just the Jews and the gay population of Germany came up but I was interested in what if any record and interpretation exists of the presence of trans people throughout history. I have heard of a handful of famous cases of “cross dressers” from French nobility but that’s about it.
If anyone has some good sources I’d greatly appreciate links or references!
It sounds like you'd be very interested in the book Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt. It's a collection of scholarly essays about how gender queer expression is preserved/interpreted in medieval Christian saints' lives, one of the most popular genres of medieval literature.
You might also be interested in some recently written threads on AH about Two-Spirit people in history: here and here. You'll find further reading suggestions in those posts.