People who don’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth have been working for centuries to guarantee their liberties since ancient times.
While it might be tempting to apply a label like “transgender” to all of these people, it’s important to respect their sovereignty in defining their own identities. European colonialism was a major force in hurting and erasing gender-variant people.
Using Western terminology to understand other cultures’ gender variance might only result in perpetuating that harm and erasure. Even Americans Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia RiveraStill, the variety of gender expressions and identities is a testament to a key tenet of Western transgender advocacy. They prove that people have rejected restrictive gender systems throughout history and in our modern age.
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