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The term "third gender" has also been used to describe the hijras of South Asia [9] who have gained legal identity, fa'afafine of Polynesia, and Balkan sworn virgins. [10] A culture recognizing a third gender does not in itself mean that they were valued by that culture and often is the result of explicit devaluation of women in that culture. [11]
Transgender persons' right to decide their self-identified gender is also upheld and the Centre and State Governments are directed to grant legal recognition of their gender identity such as male, female or as third gender.
From a rights-based perspective, third sex / gender options should be voluntary, providing trans people with a third choice about how to define their gender identity. Those identifying as a third sex / gender should have the same rights as those identifying as male or female. The document also quotes Mauro Cabral of Global Action for Trans ...
Third gender recognition world map. Many non-binary/genderqueer people use the gender they were given at birth to conduct everyday business, as many institutions and forms of identification—such as passports and driver's licenses—only accept, in the sense of recorded recognition, binary gender identities.
The muxe — Indigenous Zapotec people in Mexico — view themselves as neither man nor woman. They embrace a distinct 'third gender,' part of a burgeoning LGBTQ+ movement worldwide.
The State Department began its transition toward allowing a third gender marker on U.S. passport applications in October with the issuance of an "X" gender passport for Dana Zzyym, an intersex and ...
The gender-nonconforming or third-gender ceremonial roles traditionally embodied by some Native American and Indigenous peoples in Canada that may be encompassed by modern two-spirit people vary widely, even among the Native individuals or cultures that use the term. Not all of these cultures have historically had roles for gender-variant ...
Faʻafafine (Samoan pronunciation: [faʔafafine]; lit. ' in the manner of a woman ') are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. [1] Fa'afafine are not assigned the role at birth, nor raised as girls due to a lack of daughters, as is often claimed in western media.