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There have been trans people forever. For example - traditional Samoan society has always had non-binary people. These people are not confused nor responding to
by peterashford 4y ago
There have been trans people forever. For example - traditional Samoan society has always had non-binary people. These people are not confused nor responding to "political correctness"
https://nhm.org/stories/beyond-gender-indigenous-perspectives-faafafine-and-faafatama https://nhm.org/stories/beyond-gender-indigenous-perspective...
- hobbitstan 4y agoThat means nothing. There have been mentally ill people forever too. It doesn’t change reality.
- peterashford 4y agoThey're not mentally ill. You are a bigot
- stemforth 4y agoI find it interesting that they distinguish between fa'afafine and fa'afatama as descriptions of who fulfils this social role, with the former being male and the latter being female. That doesn't really map onto the recent idea of 'non-binary', where one's sex is supposed to be entirely ignored, and the idea of someone being a 'non-binary man' or a 'non-binary woman' is generally considered wrong or even offensive to believers of this ideology.
- peterashford 4y agoIndigenous ideas often don't map onto western concepts because they aren't western concepts