There are 1000s of cultures, languages, & belief systems in the world & a multitude of ways that people have conceptualized gender & sexuality. Those enforcing a binary view of gender based on Western European thought as the only truth is arrogant & absolutely racist
There are 1000s of cultures, languages, & belief systems in the world & a multitude of ways that people have conceptualized gender & sexuality. Those enforcing a binary view of gender based on Western European thought as the only truth is arrogant & absolutely racist
Before modern Europeans cultures even existed, South Asian cultures had a third gender. They were marginalized & criminalized when Europeans invaded
Hundreds of Indigenous cultures had their own understanding and terms for gender & sexually diverse people. While colonization destroyed so much Indigenous culture & knowledge, Two-Spirit is a modern, pan-Indigenous term to describe this diversity
The Western understanding of gender today imposes a binary rooted in bio-essentialism. Does it make sense to define ‘woman’ based on an arbitrary average of the 4 billion+ women in the world? Using biological indicators to define gender is nonsensical and invasive