Is Gender Fluid? by Sally Hines

Author:Sally Hines
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 2018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

BA member of the waria community applies make-up during the Syawalan tradition in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2015.

AA group of hijras dance together as they prepare backstage for a talent show as part of ‘Hijra Pride 2014’, a third sex parade launched to campaign the Bangladesh government to recognize hijra identities.

Until the late 20th century, anthropological studies often interpreted gender-diverse practices as personifications of same-sex desire.

Some studies focusing on Native American gender-diverse communities read these cultural traditions as representing homosexual lifestyles, particularly because two-spirit people who were biologically male but took on feminine characteristics often married masculine men, and vice versa. Some gay and lesbian members of Native American tribes choose to describe themselves as two-spirit people, aligning themselves with a cultural tradition of respect for alternative sexual or gendered lifestyles. Other anthropologists who instead represent them as transsexual cultures have questioned the positioning of the two-spirit people as gay forefathers.

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