#genders — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #genders, aggregated by home.social.
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A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures
This text and the language in the corresponding map was updated in consultation with a world gender expert in October, 2023.
"Throughout recorded history and since time immemorial, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders. Terms such as #transgender, gay, or bisexual are Western constructs that often assume three things: that there are only two sexes (male/female), as many as three sexualities (gay/straight/bisexual), and only two #genders (man/woman).
"Even after the end of the modern era and as the #colonial period wanes, hundreds of distinct #Indigenous societies around the globe still retain their own long-established traditions for third, fourth, fifth, or more genders. The subject of #TwoSpirits, Fred Martinez, for example, was not a boy who wanted to be a girl, but both a boy and a girl — an identity his Navajo culture recognized and revered as #nádleehí. Meanwhile, Hina of Kumu Hina is part of a #NativeHawaiian culture that has traditionally revered and respected #mahu, those who embody both male and female spirit. It’s not uncommon for third gender people to perform critical spiritual and religious functions in their communities.
"Among many Indigenous societies, two prominent features often distinguish the lives and social roles of third gender persons from those of cisgender persons or contemporary transgender persons in non-Indigenous societies. The first is that many Indigenous terms for third gender people contain both the word for 'man' and 'woman' in their construction, and that #ThirdGender people are seen as embodying both of those genders in diverse ways. The second is that the history of many third genders is in the community role of religious specialists, which also takes diverse forms, depending on the beliefs of diverse cultures. While not all third gender persons are defined in these terms, across our species, this phenomenon of the third gender religious specialist, healer, or spiritual worker has been part of our #CollectiveIdentity and human experience since time immemorial.
"Since the beginning of the 21st century, we’ve seen tremendous expansion of the role that transgender, #GenderDiverse, and third gender people have in society, following the tenuous establishment of civil rights for #gay and #lesbian people in many nations and increased access to #genderaffirming care in the transgender community. Many Indigenous transgender people who also identify as third gender are familiar to large audiences via their participation in popular media or social media activism. Third gender people, like the Japanese-Samoan, #Faafafine artist Yuki Kihara, now participate in major global cultural events and function not just as representatives of their gender-based community, but of their nation. Kihara had both a solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and represented New Zealand at the 2021 Venice Biennale. [For more: '#LGBTQIA+ Pride and Two-Spirit People' in Smithsonian Voices.]
"In the 21st century, many third gender people choose to take advantage of #GenderAffirmingCare, and identify, in addition to being third gender, as transgender. As access to gender-affirming care parallels healthcare access, and both third gender and Indigenous persons are often marginalized economically, it is not as readily available to many Indigenous transgender people, and within Indigenous cultures, medical transition is often seen as separate or secondary to social transition.
"Within #Western societies, despite centuries of suppression, there are still traces of a past when third or fourth or more genders were recognized within many cultures and societies. In rare cases, they presently exist. An example of this would be the #burrnesha of Albania, women who give up their social role as women to live as men. Likewise, within Jewish culture and law, as many as eight genders have been historically recognized, and in diverse ways.
"Take a tour with this world map, and learn how many cultures see gender diversity."
Learn more:
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/#PBS #GenderDiversity #CulturalTraditions #Genders #ThreeGenders #ThirdGender #FiveGenders #Gender #GBLTQ #Genders
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The third gender of southern #Mexico
In #Oaxaca’s #IstmoDeTehuantepec region, the traditional #Indigenous division of three genders is seen as a natural way of being.
by Ola Synowiec
26 November 2018" 'Which form should I use when I talk to you: feminine or masculine?' I asked #LukasAvendaño, who I had seen in trousers earlier in the day but now was wearing a traditional black skirt with colourful embroidered flowers called an enagua. We were speaking in Spanish, with its gendered nouns and pronouns. 'I prefer you’d just call me sweetheart,' Avendaño giggled.
"Here, in the Istmo de Tehuantepec region in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, there are three genders: #female, #male and #muxes. This third classification has been acknowledged and celebrated since #PreHispanic times, and it’s hard to imagine life without muxes here. But in this region where most people speak the indigenous #Zapotec language, my question doesn’t make much sense.
'In Zapotec, as in English, there are no grammatical genders. There is only one form for all people. Muxes have never been forced to wonder: are they more man or woman?' Avendaño explained.
'We’re the third sex,' added Felina, who, unlike Avendaño, decided to change his given male name, Ángel, and goes only by this moniker. 'There’s men and women and there’s something in between, and that’s who I am.' "Read more:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181125-the-third-gender-of-southern-mexicoArchived version:
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Asia's isle of five separate genders
The #Bugis people of #SouthSulawesi are a powerful ethnic group remarkable for its recognition of five separate genders. But the future of their unique culture looks bleak.
By Daniel Stables
12th April 2021Excerpts: "Davies explained that in Bugis society, #makkunrai and #oroani correspond to Western concepts of cis female and cis male. #Calalai are born with female bodies but take on traditionally male gender roles; they may wear shirts and trousers, smoke cigarettes, wear their hair short and work manual jobs. #Calabai are born with male bodies but take on female gender roles, wearing dresses and makeup and growing their hair long. 'Many calabai work in beauty salons,' said Neni, a calabai from the village of Segiri, north of Makassar. 'We also help to plan weddings and perform at wedding ceremonies.'
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"The fifth Bugis gender is #bissu, which is considered neither male nor female but representative of the totality of the gender spectrum. Bissu, like calabai and calalai, display their identity through dress: they often wear flowers, a traditionally feminine symbol, but carry the keris dagger associated with men. Many bissu are born intersex, but the term has implications beyond biology. While Bugis gender is often described as a spectrum, bissu are deemed to be above this classification: spiritual beings who are not halfway between male and female, but rather embody the power of both at once."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20210411-asias-isle-of-five-separate-gendersArchived version:
https://archive.ph/COc2v#FiveGenders #Gender #GBLTQ #Indonesia #Genders #BugisCulture
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Ahh, the five #Genders
(diese scheiz-roten Material Design Asteriske mit dem Deppenleerzeichen bringen mich regelmäßig zum Kotzen)
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Respect All #Genders & #SexualOrientations
Very important #historicalarchives. Everyone, regardless of genders and sexual orientations, is part of our society and history.
非常重要的 #歷史文獻 ，所有人，不分 #性別， 不分 #性取向 ，都是我們社會和歷史的一部份。 #保存歷史 ，就是 #尊重文化 ， #尊重人權 ，尊重每一個人。 -
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"The #diversity principle holds that when you bring together #people with different #backgrounds and #experiences, including people of different #ages, of different #religions, of different #races and #ethnicities and #genders, when you include people with #disabilities, when you include people who are perennially #outsiders and make them all part of a #group they will be better problem-solvers."
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news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/06/t... 1/ "The #diversity principle holds that when you bring together #people with different #backgrounds and #experiences, including people of different #ages, of different #religions, of different #races and #ethnicities and #genders - "
‘The Diversity Principle’: Tra... -
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I Iz violent and illegal and non kosher.Woe is me. 💩
Be that as it may. I would welcome #anarchists of all available #genders. Support bigoted #atheists and religious types to change their opinions for #FAQ's.
I would also have a troll feeding area (they taste of jerk chicken) for the famished. Other innovations would be the banning of any rules that can not be changed. Might need a Judge for that... :omya_mastodon:Oh yes I have a plan (which I will abandon as soon as possible or at least regularly. If you wish to be a part of the admin team please contact someone (preferably not me) :blobDab:
Have a great day everyone. Release the Wombles. Fredom 4 Tooting. She who dares. Wins. [lobster rambles off into the sunset] :elmo_fire:
:hearthands: :fedi: :vulcan_hmn_g1:
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How many #genders there are?
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do people realize #feminism is for all #genders, and therefore #transfeminism is also for all genders? it's not just for #trans women, i promise.
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Yall know the #patriarchy affects #men too right? Like It's not just #women, yes men benefit from the patriarchy. Yes they are also hurt by it, both can be true. Thats like the basics of #feminism I fear. We should focus on helping both #genders (and the ones outside of the binary) getting out from the #oppressive weight of the patriarchy not putting down men for literally anything they do and calling them "disgusting".
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#TexasAM President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
The university had been roiled over a student who filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a #children’s #literature course that recognized more than two #genders.
#law #censorship #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/texas-am-president-gender-ideology-controversy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The main character of the #hopepunk book I'm reading is a cis woman with an infant, married to a trans woman. They share a house with another cis woman, this one married to a trans man (who gave birth to their toddler, because his transition was delayed by cult parents). Fine, all for it.
Where I have some problem is when the watershed people (their distributed-consensus quasi-government setup) have to interact with corporate people on their artificial aisland [sic: AI+island]. The corpos have four #genders (female and male not among the choices) at which they can play, changing at any time, plus a gender for non-players.
They have five sets of #pronouns to match, and you're supposed to use the correct pronouns of the moment, which you should pick up on by reading body language and clothing choices.
Sorry, no. I get overloaded just reading about it, and I'd dissolve in a puddle if I had to react to it all in real time. The pangolin-pillbug aliens and their three-meter-tall ten-legged spider colleagues are straightforward in comparison. #SciFi
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Ahh, the four #Genders
(Das hier ist grammatikalisch herausfordernd …)
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I know it’s hard because it’s a learned behavior (and I’m far from perfect myself,) but people need to stop saying ‘women and nonbinary people’ when what they mean is women and other assigned female folks. Assigned male enby people exist and that kind of language doesn’t help them.
#Ramblings #gender #genders #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #gendered-language #NB #enbies #enby #gender-talk #queer -
2y ago, on tour in several Latin American countries. I mostly played concerts but took a lot of pics too. Nature but also human things, like this one in #CostaRica. #baño #bathroom #toilet #wc all #genders all #nationalities all #ethnicgroups - More civilised than one of its neighbours up north...
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Ahh, the four #Genders
(Wann lernen sie es endlich die Anfrage optional zu machen, statt ein halbherziges „keine Angabe“ drunterzuklatschen‽)
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My #turnon is #woman playing #bassguitar.
Gotta be one of my favorite #genders.