From 8ec8820bffee9ae006eb314d81a6e92ec17955e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elisaveta Stathiou Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:10:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update index.md - There is so singular North American Indigenous culture (#183) --- public/en/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/public/en/index.md b/public/en/index.md index e809720..3119edd 100644 --- a/public/en/index.md +++ b/public/en/index.md @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ siblings: }!} -In cultures worldwide, for as long as human civilization has existed, [there have been people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history) whose experience of their gender identity do not align with the Anglo-European concepts of binary sex based on genital structure. The Gala, a middle gender priest class of the Sumerian empire, existed over 4,500 years ago. The Indigenous cultures of North America recognized [a third gender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender) far before European colonialism, and still do to this day. Tribal [cultures all across Africa](https://medium.com/@janelane_62637/the-splendor-of-gender-non-conformity-in-africa-f894ff5706e1) recognize numerous gender identities, which [Europeans tried to wipe out](https://daily.jstor.org/the-deviant-african-genders-that-colonialism-condemned/). Human beings have long lived with identities, norms, and degrees of conformity to those norms which differ from the so-called "traditional" idea of gender in westernized culture today. +In cultures worldwide, for as long as human civilization has existed, [there have been people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history) whose experience of their gender identity do not align with the Anglo-European concepts of binary sex based on genital structure. The Gala, a middle gender priest class of the Sumerian empire, existed over 4,500 years ago. Many of the Indigenous cultures of North America recognized [a third gender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender) far before European colonialism, and still do to this day. Tribal [cultures all across Africa](https://medium.com/@janelane_62637/the-splendor-of-gender-non-conformity-in-africa-f894ff5706e1) recognize numerous gender identities, which [Europeans tried to wipe out](https://daily.jstor.org/the-deviant-african-genders-that-colonialism-condemned/). Human beings have long lived with identities, norms, and degrees of conformity to those norms which differ from the so-called "traditional" idea of gender in westernized culture today. In spite of this, however, the modern western understanding of the transgender experience has only existed for approximately 130 years. Even the word "transgender" only dates back to 1965, when John Oliven proposed it as a more accurate alternative to David Cauldwell's term "transsexual" (coined in 1949), which itself replaced Magnus Hirschfeld's term "transvestite" (1910).