Gender-variant identities worldwide: Difference between revisions
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* '''Name of identity:''' Sekhet | * '''Name of identity:''' ''Sekhet (s<u>h</u>t)'' | ||
* '''Culture:''' Ancient Egypt | * '''Culture:''' Ancient Egypt | ||
* '''Era:''' Middle Kingdom, 2000-1800 BCE | * '''Era:''' Middle Kingdom, 2000-1800 BCE | ||
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Writings from ancient Egypt (Middle Kingdom, 2000-1800 BCE) said there were three genders of humans: | Writings from ancient Egypt (Middle Kingdom, 2000-1800 BCE) said there were three genders of humans: male, ''sekhet'', and female, in that order. Sekhet is usually translated as "eunuch," but that's probably an oversimplification of what this gender category means. Since it was given that level of importance, it could potentially be an entire category of gender/sex variance that doesn't fit into male or female. The hieroglyphs for ''sekhet'' include a sitting figure that usually mean a man, but the word doesn't include hieroglyphs that refer to genitals in any way. The word for male did include hieroglyphs depicting genitals. At the very least, ''sekhet'' is likely to mean cisgender gay men, in the sense of not having children, and not necessarily someone who was castrated. <ref name="Sekhet" /> | ||
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* '''Name of identity:''' Sekrata | * '''Name of identity:''' ''Sekrata'' | ||
* '''Culture:''' The Sakalava people in Madagascar | * '''Culture:''' The Antandroy, Hova, and Sakalava people in the island country of Madagascar | ||
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* '''Description of sex/gender:''' AMAB and feminine | * '''Description of sex/gender:''' AMAB and feminine | ||
* '''Role in society:''' | * '''Role in society:''' women's work | ||
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Several indigenous cultures of Madagascar have a gender category called ''Sekrata''. When a small child who was AMAB shows a preference for women's work and women's clothes, then the child's family raises this child as a woman, a ''Sekrata''. The ''Sekrata'' think of themselves as women, not men. People in these societies treat ''Sekrata'' with respect. They believe that if someone disrespects or offends a ''Sekrata'', then she can put a curse on that person and make them ill.<ref>Iwan Block. ''Anthropological Studies on the Strange Sexual Practices of All Races and All Ages.'' 1933. P. 53-54. (Most other sources about the Sekrata seem to be copied from this source. Unfortunately, This source is unreliable and very racist. We need a better source that not based on this one.)</ref> | |||
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