The Golden Ass by Apuleius [IMAGE of Lucius, the hero of Apuleius's Latin novel – a man who has been transformed into a donkey] The notion of being 'trapped in the wrong' body, criticised philosophically in relation to transsexual people, has a long history as a literary trope – The Golden Ass, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream In Ovid's poem Io, turned into an heifer, is troubled by her voice – as trans people can be.
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