The religious right of the 5th century AD was absolutely zealous about exterminating transgender: They murdered our people and destroyed our organizations. Trans women in the Roman world followed the religion of the Great Mother Cybele, who was considered the protectress of Rome. Her cultus and Her transgender priestesses were spread all over the Roman world from Britain to Asia Minor, with their headquarters on the Vatican Hill. The Church not only abolished Her religion along with all other paganism, and put trans women to death in the process. Unlike other pagan sites which were converted into churches, they demolished Cybele's buildings down to the foundations and never built anything more on the site. They diverted the Roman people's love and devotion for the Great Mother to their Virgin Mary, which is still evident in the devotion to Mary instead of Christ among Italian peasants.
