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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Gender identity as neither man nor woman Part of a series on Transgender topics Outline History Timeline Gender identities Androgyne Bissu, Calabai, Calalai Burrnesha Cisgender Gender bender Hijra Non-binary or genderqueer Gender fluidity Kathoey Koekchuch Third gender Bakla Faʻafafine ...
I am the third sex, not a man trying to be a woman. It is your society's problem that you only recognize two sexes.'" [125] Hijra social movements have campaigned for recognition as a third sex, [126] and in 2005, Indian passport application forms were updated with three gender options: M, F, and E (for male, female, and eunuch, respectively ...
In the domesticated papaya (Carica papaya), three sex chromosomes are present, denoted as X, Y and Y h. This corresponds with three sexes: females with XX chromosomes, males with XY, and hermaphrodites with XY h. The hermaphrodite sex is estimated to have arisen only 4000 years ago, post-domestication of the plant.
Transgender [4] [5] can be defined as "gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth." [20] Transgender female [4] [5] Transgender male [4] [5] Transgender ...
Robert Stoller, whose work was the first to treat sex and gender as "two different orders of data", in his book Sex and Gender: The Development of Masculinity and Femininity, [46] uses the term 'sex' to refer to the "male or the female sex and the component biological parts that determine whether one is a male or a female". [47]
Hermaphroditus is a highly sophisticated representation, invading the boundaries between the sexes that seem so clear in classical thought and representation. [31] In c.400, Augustine wrote in The Literal Meaning of Genesis that humans were created in two sexes, despite "as happens in some births, in the case of what we call androgynes". [16]
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Chromosomal sex is determined at the time of fertilization; a chromosome from the sperm cell, either X or Y, fuses with the X chromosome in the egg cell. Gonadal sex refers to the gonads, that is the testicles or ovaries, depending on which genes are expressed. Phenotypic sex refers to the structures of the external and internal genitalia. [6]