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portrayed Lourival as a liar:
pervasive use of Western binary
erased his identity
The ongoing, pervasive belief that humankind is only made up of “men” and “women” contributes to the violence directed at transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people.
directly associated with people’s genitalia and reproductive capacities
two options of social roles based on the format of people’s bodies
most assassinated people worldwide.
transgender people are a phenomenon of the 21st century
have no past
death, and pain cannot and should not be the only stories told about trans people
Hijras in India, muxes in Mexico, māhū in Polynesia, and winkte in Lakota territory
heavily influenced by the Eurocentric binary
division of humanity is rarely binary in ancient depictions of human bodies.
Bronze Age figurative art in Greece
3,000 clay figures from Ecuador,
buried with objects typically attributed to “men” or “women” have also been identified with a different biological sex
fails to acknowledge the possibility that the Lady of Cao may have identified as something other than a man or a woman
belonging to the researchers’ certainty, and not to the individual’s sex.
anomalies” or “ambiguous cases
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