Trans Megathread for the Week of November 25th, 2024 to December 1st, 2024
Trans Megathread for the Week of November 25th, 2024 to December 1st, 2024
Hello everyone! Hestia here with a new Megathread! Years ago, before I transitioned and when I was still in college I took an anthropology class. My favorite part of the class was when we were covering different gender customs across the globe and got to make a report on one of them. I can't remember exactly which one I chose for that project, but what I do remember is a map with different pins scattered on it with various forms of gender-queerness. I decided to track it down and share it with you folks!
Edit: you have to open this in a browser, if you're on a phone it will automatically try to open it in Google maps and won't bring up the info.
This map provides a brief summary of these genders, but does not go in depth. If you find any you're interested in, feel free to do some further research and share your findings here. I'll pin a comment to this post you can attach them. I'm going to share a couple that I found interesting and decided to look further into myself, both of them are non-binary and native american in origin.
The first one I want to talk about is the Winkte, which is a third gender role that was particulatly notable in the Lakota tribe The Winkte are seen as half-men, half-women, and considered sacred. They are typically AMAB and historically have served unique roles in matters of romance and matchmaking and often served as intermediaries for prospecting couples and their families. They also participated in war parties, functioning primarily as witnesses to battle and as doctors to care for the injured. They were also seen as seers, able to forsee paths to victory.
https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/arts-and-culture/the-winkte-and-the-hundred-in-hand/
This next one I'm going to talk about seems mostly local to the Zuni people called the "Lhamana" and I find the Zuni culture to be particularly fascinating, even just doing a cursory glance at it.
Gender roles were well defined in Zuni culture, but the Zuni also valued the concept of a "middle" as it represented stability. This originates from their creation myth, which I won't go in detail here because I don't feel qualified to summarize it, but it's in the link down below.
The Zuni culture is pretty neat and they don't refer to gender when talking about children. They believed that gender wasn't an inborn trait but something you acquired as you approached puberty. I wish this was the western approach, but alas.
As children approach puberty they begin to differentiate through different hair styles or clothing choices. AFAB Lhamana would grind corn and make a bowl of stew when they get their first period. There's probably some cultural significance to this, but I'm not going to do a deep dive on it right now. AMAB Lhamana would start to wear dresses once they hit puberty and start performing women's work. Both AMAB and AFAB Lhamana were allowed to switch between male and female gender roles as they pleased.
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/The-Middle-Gender-in-Zuni-Religion
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Most things are going well in life minus health and my jobs are working me half to death. I didn't even know it was legal to be working 12hr days in retail, I'm so used to being scheduled like 6hrs daily at best. The pay isn't even there to justify this and there are no benefits. Tomorrow is going to be another fun 12hr day.
I found out my cats are afraid of googly eyes which I've used to protect my knockoff aliexpress 2.99 'roombas' from my cats swatting the bots off course or dragging them into places like the kitchen or litter box, so I made a biblically accurate angel themed Xmas tree, haven't had a tree since I was a small child, this was just a DT 5 dollar special with some glued on googley eyes and pipecleaner
buddies on it. Eyes on everything, lol. They won't tip over this tree.And health is an obvious CW warning for everything;
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Body's war against other parts of itself continues. Had a uterine biopsy done the other day, one its painful AF, easy contender for top 10 most physically painful experiences so I have no idea why they don't drug you for them, two the fact I had to get a biopsy makes me nervous if I require a procedure the soonest it will be done will correspond to my yearly medical cut. Also, if I need a procedure of any kind I'll be let go from my main retail gig since I can't miss days or weeks like that, I worked yesterday a day after my biopsy and I left wanting to cry. I shouldn't have done that, but the way the doc made it sound like it was a mild procedure and I would have been fine yesterday to work, while in reality I was writhing around in pain unable to do anything notable.
At least I'll still have my online gig and my flipping laptops side gig that I hope will cover basic utilities and rent though I'll be hosed for medicines on the impending cut.
Why are cats like this with googly eyes? c:
Probably figure its a hostile multi-eyed predator or at least something itching for a fight that always sees them. Birds, cats and most primates hate prolonged direct eye contact.
I am always hearing this!!! I stare my cats and dogs in the eye for long periods though, mostly I get my nose licked. I guess it depends how well trained they are?
That really sucks about the health stuff but it sounds like your bs Job is making it so much worse 😔.
The Biblically accurate Angel sounds amazing though!
I ran out of eyes for the tree since the wheels took most of them, at least its a lot of weeks until Xmas.