Category: Historical Days

The number of people identifying as transgender has steadily increased across generations, with 0.15% of Baby Boomers, 0.19% of Gen Xers, 0.51% of Millennials, and 0.79% of Gen Zers of Canada identifying as trans in some way or another. Although there has been an increase, the fact is that trans people have been an undeniable part of society across time. Most of these people weren’t activists or pioneers, which is why the Insider has chosen to honour random, and fascinating, trans people who you’ve probably never heard of for this…

Holocaust Rememberance Day Why did the Holocaust happen? A holocaust such as the one known with a capital H does not happen overnight. Instead, I’d say that this is a perfect example of the boiling frog phenomenon. First came Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 that popularized eugenics. Darwin presented the theory of Darwinism: organisms will adapt to their environment so that, in the end, only the traits most suitable for life and survival will remain. The theory was then grossly oversimplified and…