Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by int_19h on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:54PM
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It's interesting though that all those cultures came up with distinct terms for trans identities. I suspect there'd be a lot less pushback if this was tried with English instead of overloading the meaning of pre-existing terms.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by socialismisok on Sunday November 20, 2022 @02:11AM
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Probably true!
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by throwaway675309 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:40PM
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These are nice terms but they're heavily rooted in social constructs and don't really answer the OPS question which was tying biological sex to well... biology and in this particular case gametes/chromosomes.
In mesopotamia, mesoamerica, and the Indus valley there were people of unclear sex who fulfilled genders beyond men and women.
A neologism from pan indigenous culture is Two Spirit.
These concepts have existed for a loooong time, however they were quite rare in western countries. As westerners, we're being exposed to them now, but they are hardly novel on the world stage.