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==Identities in Africa== <!--T:4-->
==Identities in Africa== <!--T:4-->
===Kodjo-besia===
* '''Name of identity:''' Kodjo-besia ("Kodjo" is a common Ghanaian name, and Kodjo-besia means "Kodjo is a woman [inside]" in the Twi language.)<ref name="Geoffrion2013">{{cite journal|last1=Geoffrion|first1=Karine|title=“I Wish our Gender Could Be Dual”|journal=Cahiers d'études africaines|volume=53|issue=209-210|year=2013|pages=417–443|issn=0008-0055|doi=10.4000/etudesafricaines.17373}}</ref>
* '''Culture:''' Ghana
* '''Era:'''
* '''Description of sex/gender:''' Kodjo-besia is used for a range of AMAB individuals who deviate from normative masculinity. They may be gay, [[transfeminine]], or simply effeminate.<ref name="Geoffrion2013" />
* '''Role in society:''' Often engaging in traditionally female occupations, Kodjo-besia are "perceived as deviant, but they are tolerated on the basis that they cannot be changed".<ref name="Geoffrion2013" />
===Sarombavy===
* '''Name of identity:''' Sarombavy
* '''Culture:''' Tanala people of Madagascar<ref>{{cite web |url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/africa/ |title=Chapter 3: Global Sexualities: LGBTQ Anthropology Past, Present, and Future |work=LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook |last=Russo |first=Joseph}}</ref>
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* '''Description of sex/gender:'''
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===Sekhet=== <!--T:5-->
===Sekhet=== <!--T:5-->
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* '''Description of sex/gender:''' AMAB and feminine. The 'yan daudu "are categorized as neither male nor female but as an ambiguous middle category."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Hausa concepts of masculinity and the 'Yan Daudu |journal=Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality |date=January 2007 |volume=1 |issue=1 |last=Salamone |first=Frank A. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A189052344/LitRC?u=anon~ab905509&sid=googleScholar&xid=5446ee4e}}</ref>
* '''Description of sex/gender:''' AMAB and feminine. The 'yan daudu "are categorized as neither male nor female but as an ambiguous middle category."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Hausa concepts of masculinity and the 'Yan Daudu |journal=Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality |date=January 2007 |volume=1 |issue=1 |last=Salamone |first=Frank A. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A189052344/LitRC?u=anon~ab905509&sid=googleScholar&xid=5446ee4e}}</ref>
* '''Role in society:'''
===Sarombavy===
* '''Name of identity:''' Sarombavy
* '''Culture:''' Tanala people of Madagascar<ref>{{cite web |url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/africa/ |title=Chapter 3: Global Sexualities: LGBTQ Anthropology Past, Present, and Future |work=LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook |last=Russo |first=Joseph}}</ref>
* '''Era:'''
* '''Description of sex/gender:'''
* '''Role in society:'''
* '''Role in society:'''


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