> If you go to any other culture on the globe and talk about non-binary gender, you will either be met with confusion, or just straight up mockery. India’s not

> If you go to any other culture on the globe and talk about non-binary gender, you will either be met with confusion, or just straight up mockery. India’s not an affluent country, and irrespective of their legal status (Google it, it may surprise you), nonbinary people have a distinctive identity and place in society. This is not to say that how affluent western countries approach trans rights is better or worse, it just means trans people do have a place in other cultures I’m familiar with. Perhaps others can share examples from other cultures. > Any instance in history where you can find a similar trend, it tends to be at the decline stage of civilizations / empires. Elizabethan England wasn’t very affluent or educated compared to today, but even a cursory glance at their literature shows that authors and audiences understood what we’d call intersex or nonbinary identity today (I frequently mix up the terminology.) I don’t think their idea of rights was quite as legalistically driven as modern Western society, but I don’t think being nonbinary was a death sentence either.