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In ''Whipping Girl'', Julia Serano talks about some of the problems of how Westerners have interpreted gender variant people in other cultures as "third gender" in order to support those Westerners' own theories about gender. For example, she says that Will Roscoe, who studied Two-Spirit people in history, interprets those people as nonbinary in ''every'' case, even when the people themselves made clear that they identified as women or men. Roscoe does this to support his view that gender is always only a social construct. Serano wrote,
* '''Name of identity:''' ''Sekhet (s<u>h</u>t)''
* '''Culture:''' Ancient Egypt
* '''Era:''' Middle Kingdom, 2000-1800 BCE
* '''Description of sex/gender:''' unknown, except that the ancient Egyptians said Sekhet were one of the three genders or sexes
* '''Role in society:''' unknown
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