
Sex and Gender
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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What Is the Third Gender?
In 20 14, the supreme court in india officially recognized a third gender. They use the term ahira or kinar is their preference, which is actually a reference to a mystical creature india. In hawaiian indigenous cultures, we have the mahus, who defy this gender binary. There are lots of different gender categories outside of male, female that exist all over the world and they're not new ideas. That have just always been. Gender is not binary. Sex is not binary - why do we hold so tightly in the us? To this false idea that this framework we have, thi this sex binary, this ginder binary, is all correct.
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