Title: Gender system - Wikipedia
Headings: Gender system
Gender system
Contents
Gender binary
Gender systems around the world
Native American
The Mohave Alyha
Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico
Machi (Mapuche Shamans) of Chile
Indian Hindu
Hijras
Sādhin
Brazil
Naples and Southern Italy
Polynesia
Thailand
Philippines
The cultural definition of homosexuality
The Alternative Model of Gender
Gendered violence
See also
References
Bibliography

Content: The roles varied greatly between tribes. For example, a male variant might have to wear male clothing during warfare, but women's clothing any other time. These gender roles were often decided at a young age. If a boy was interested in women's activities, or vice versa, a gender variant role would likely be undertaken in adulthood. " In some societies, same-sex sexual desire or practice did figure into the definition of one’s gender variant role, in others, it did not." In the case of the Navajo, there are four genders: man, woman, masculine female-bodied nádleeh, and feminine male-bodied nádleeh. Intercourse between two people of different genders, regardless of biological sex, was not stigmatized. In the majority of Native American societies, biological sex played no part in any gender variant role. The Mohave Alyha
In Mohave society, pregnant women believed they had dreams forecasting the anatomic sex of their children.