This session focuses on transgender archives and methodologies within the history of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The organizers of this session, Leah DeVun and Zeb Tortorici, are coeditors of a recent special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly devoted to the topic of “Trans*Historicities,” which refers to transgender history before the advent of current categories and terminologies of gender, such as (but not limited to) “lesbian,” “gay,” “queer,” “transsexual,” “transgender,” and the like. This panel aims to continue some of the scholarly conversations that began in that volume, here considering how scholars working in the field of trans* histories of the Americas deal with questions of continuity and discontinuity, archival presence and absence, and the relationship between scholarship and diverse activist impulses. The disciplinary field of history (at least outside of the field of self-defined LGBTQ history) has thus far been relatively slow to embrace and advance some of the more methodological and theoretical challenges that transgender studies offers for rethinking and rewriting history. This proposed session, with participants ranging from advanced doctoral candidates to associate professors, therefore seeks to encourage more engagement and dialogue within the discipline of history by showcasing new histories of gender variance and by exploring the methodological possibilities and continued challenges of writing transgender history. The three featured papers focus on transgender history as it intersects with the history of race and coloniality, and they center subjects from the Global South and from BIPOC and Indigenous communities. More specifically, they focus, respectively, on queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Anishinaabe in parts of Canada and the United States; on famous “inverts” in early twentieth-century Buenos Aires, who were obsessively written about by scientific experts and the popular press; and on a reframing of mid-century carceral history in the U.S. by centering African American and Latinx social histories and Black and Brown transgender subjects. Among other topics to be considered are the ways in which gender-variant subjects represent themselves, how radical friendships counter pathologizing narratives, and how transgender identities and practices operate in relation to anti-colonial and anti-carceral histories and movements of resistance.