Title: Do we need more than two genders? - BBC News
Headings: Do we need more than two genders?
Do we need more than two genders?
Brin Bixby: Gender is a cultural construction
Mark Gevisser: Accept the gender continuum
Dr Imran Mushtaq: Doctors increasingly recognise complexity of defining sex
Tamara Adrian: We must work towards a more gender fluid world

Content: "What we're seeing now is a relaxation of the sense of binary amongst younger people and internet-savvy people who are inhabiting much more fluid spaces." Mark Gevisser: Accept the gender continuum
Writer Mark Gevisser explores gender identities across different cultures. "We know there's a gender continuum, because there have always been effeminate boys and masculine girls. Transgender is certainly not a western phenomenon. In many cultures all over the world there are traditionally third gender or gender-fluid identities. image copyright
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Hijra activists in Hyderabad protest against the stigma and discrimination they sometimes face
"There are the Hijras in India, what are known as two-spirited people in Native American culture, Muxe in Mexico, and the Bakla in the Philippines. The space these people have occupied has receded with the spread of the Judeo-Christian ethic and western culture, but they're still very much there. "There's a tendency in the west to idealise these. But the truth is that if you're Bakla or two-spirited, there are only certain things in your culture you can do.