Talk:Gender variance in spirituality

For posterity, I would like to record my decisions in my lengthy edit of this page.

• Though many deities are seen to posses both male and female aspects, I chose to only include those who are either explicitly genderless/androgynous by nature, or those whose transness is blatantly seen. For example, Enki's male-and-female aspect is only seen through ideas of fertility, and not through cult or myth. Therefore he is not inherently gender divergent. On the other hand Hapi is seen with breasts and a fake beard, both codifying transness.

• Castration, while historically an event which can lead to a person being seen as a different gender, is not the same in deities. Divine castration can mean many things, and this is not inherently a marker for gender variance.

• A lot of deities were marked as androgynous simply due to their nature as a creator. Being a creation deity does not make you inherently androgynous.

• If a deity blessed a trans person by being able to live as their correct gender, that does not make the deity gender variant

• Simply being a personification or archetype is not being gender variant

--MorningSparrow (talk) 04:42, 8 May 2019 (UTC)