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| | Bronn : Men without cocks. You wouldn't find me fighting in an army if I had no cock. What's left to fight for? |
| [[File:Eunuch.svg|thumb|200px|Eunuch [[gender symbols|symbol]]. It is a male symbol with the extending arrow having been "sliced through".]]
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| A [[eunuch]] generally means a person who was [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]], and who was [[castration|castrated]]. Though many historical eunuchs were made so without their consent, eunuchs often occupied a nonbinary [[gender role]] (often called [[third gender]]), and some of them were what we now call [[transgender]]. Then, as now, some people are eunuchs by choice, and some of them see this as a [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]]. Nowadays eunuchs are recognised more and more as being part of the transgender spectre.
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| Since this is not Wikipedia (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch Wikipedia's article on eunuchs]), this page should focus on eunuchs as a nonbinary identity, people throughout history who have become eunuchs by choice, and eunuchs in the context of nonbinary gender.
| | Jaime Lannister : Gold? |
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| ==Definitions and history==
| | Bronn : I spend my life around soldiers. What do you think they spend that gold on? |
| Usually a eunuch is one who has been castrated either by at least taking away the gonads (testicles), called [[orchiectomy]], sometimes including the removal of the scrotum, or by taking away the gonads as well as the phallus (penis), called [[emasculation]]. Eunuchs have existed for virtually all of written history: the earliest record of them was in Sumer, in the 21st century BCE.<ref>Maekawa, Kazuya (1980). Animal and human castration in Sumer, Part II: Human castration in the Ur III period. Zinbun [Journal of the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University], pp. 1–56.</ref><ref> Maekawa, Kazuya (1980). Female Weavers and Their Children in Lagash – Presargonic and Ur III. Acta Sumerologica 2:81–125.</ref>
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| Before the creation of more elaborate kinds of [[surgery|gender-validating surgeries]], [[gender-variant identities worldwide|nonbinary and other transgender people in many cultures]] were also eunuchs by choice. Traditionally, [[Hijra]]s were eunuchs, and many of them today prefer to be so, even when they have the option to get the kind of surgeries that [[transgender women]] can get today. Some other identities that have often been eunuchs include Ashtime and [[Gallae]].
| | Jaime Lannister : Family. |
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| Eunuch is not necessarily a nonbinary or transgender identity. Many cultures around the world also had a tradition of making someone into a eunuch without that person's consent. The purpose of this was to ensure that they couldn't have children with a nobleman's concubines, or to give them a higher singing voice (Castrati). These eunuchs usually identified as [[men]]. Eunuch is also not necessarily a surgical process. In some ancient writings, sometimes "eunuch" means a person who hasn't been castrated, but who can't or won't have children, because of being sterile, [[intersex]], [[gay]], [[asexuality|asexual]], or just not interested.
| | Bronn : Not without a cock, you don't. |
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| Some nonbinary people who identify as [[neutrois]] are or wish to become eunuchs, or label themselves as eunuchs.<ref>"FAQs." ''Neutrois.com''. http://neutrois.com/0/faq.html</ref>
| | Jaime Lannister : Maybe it really is all cocks in the end. |
| ==See also==
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| *[[Gender-variant identities worldwide]]
| | Bronn : And yet, your brother has chosen to side with the cockless. |
| *[[Androgyne]]
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| *[[Epicene]]
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| *[[Neutrois]]
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| ==External links==
| | Jaime Lannister : Yes. He's always been a champion of the the downtrodden. |
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| *[https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/index.htm "Born Eunuchs" Home Page and Library]
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Nonbinary identities]] | | [[Category:Nonbinary identities]] |
