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"How can 'queers have always been with us' if pondering gender identity is a 'recent phenomenon'?"

the appropriate analogy would be "how can anarchists have always existed if anarchism is the creation of 19th century europeans?"
longstanding resistance to the excesses of arbitrary/coercive authority is a lot older than the publication of Proudhon's "What Is Property?" or Godwin's "Inquiry Concerning Political Justice."