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> the khanith of Arabia I'm very well aware of Arabian culture. khanith is a homosexual and/or effeminate male, and is heavily used as an insult today (almost

• shakna 5y ago
  > Repeat after me, there are two genders. Everything you described has one of two parts between their legs, barring physical ailments like intersex, which are extremely extremely rare. As the Tiwi would say today (and have been saying for an order of magnitude longer than most nations have existed - about eight thousand years or so): > Kirrijamiyagirraga naramiya makirri kirrikirriramiya To roughly translate into English... "If you cannot see if it is a woman, nor a man, why must it be either?" It loses a little bit of meaning, as it uses four genders and English is not a gendered language, but you can get the gist. (Naramiya is closer to "bear witness" or "absolutely determine" in a somewhat-legal sense. It's a stronger phrase than English really has.) You are conflating the genetics of _sex_ with the cultural status of _gender_. No one is denying the genetics side. They have just managed to understand the difference between how one presents oneself, and something else that only their doctor need know.