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Cannonpointer » Today, 12:10 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 12:10 am

Name one.

Every culture around the world, including ours, views gender as binary. 

There is a cancer in our culture that is trying and failing to change that. 

ChatGPT is doing precisely what Skans has said: drawing on the bias of its controllers.

• In India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the hijra community is recognized as a third gender.

• Kathoey, or "ladyboys," are individuals assigned male at birth who express femininity. While they may be categorized as transgender in a Western context, they often have a culturally specific role in Thai society.

• The Bugis people recognize five genders: male, female, calabai (assigned male but embodying feminine traits), calalai (assigned female but embodying masculine traits), and bissu (androgynous or transcendent gender roles with spiritual significance).

• Some anthropologists have noted that certain Khoisan-speaking societies conceptualize gender with less rigid binary distinctions, often focusing more on roles and contributions to the community than strict male/female divisions.

• Among some Cheyenne and Lakota communities, gender is understood less as a binary and more as a spectrum, often shaped by spiritual roles and societal contributions.