I don't know what their views are on those matters - I don't think there's a lot of documentary evidence. (I also picked those two people because I'm American a

I don't know what their views are on those matters - I don't think there's a lot of documentary evidence. (I also picked those two people because I'm American and I grew up Methodist and I happened to have read about both of them recently; my point is very much that it wasn't only these two people who were the only non-bigots of the 1700s, and I'm sure we can find similar stories from whatever segment of history you're interested in, too.) I also think the question here isn't really about bigots by modern standards. Bp. Coke makes it clear that Col. Bedford was a terrible man by the standards of the time, so much so that he didn't say a single positive thing about him at his funeral and he was quite glad that God had killed him off. Morris thinks the slavers of his era were working "in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity" and the slaveholders of the south were putting people in "the most cruel bondages". Ronald Fisher died in 1962. He was a contemporary of such people as MLK and Rosa Parks, just as much as he was a contemporary of Josef Mengele. He was one of many participated in the drafting of the 1950 UNESCO statement on "The Race Question," and out of those, he was one of very few who insisted on the reasonableness of dividing up the human population by race, both in terms of biological nature and in terms of moral worth. The article is not asking about modern standards of bigotry; his colleagues in 1950 would have called him a bigot. Nobody is trying to cancel Herod for not being a fan of neopronouns. There were enough reasons for Herod's own contemporaries to call him evil. That said, since you mention trans issues - you might be interested in the story of the Public Universal Friend (1752-1819), who among other things insisted on being referred to in a gender-neutral manner and generally had that wish honored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend I think people were much less concerned about this sort of thing in the past when they were not told to be concerned about it. See also the 1952 New York Daily News headline, "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty," subtitled "Bronx Youth Is a Happy Woman After 2 Years, 6 Operations." https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx-army-vet-ground-breaking-sex-change-1952-article-1.2198836 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx-army-vet-ground-b... (see the original headline at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25375703/ex-gi-becomes-blonde-beauty/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25375703/ex-gi-becomes-blond...) The article straightforwardly refers to her as "she" and a "new woman" and says the conversion was "successfully completed," noting also that her military and immigration records were changed. To be abundantly clear, I am sure that Christine Jorgensen would have been much happier to have been alive today and going through transition today instead of seventy years ago - but I also think the anti-trans bigotry that we see today from certain corners is not the remnant of a universal worldview of seventy years ago. Some fraction of people were bigots in the past, as they are today; many people weren't and aren't. (Of course, also, part of this is that scientific studies of gay rights and trans issues at the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft were burned by the same folks that Fisher decided to defend in 1950.)