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: Gender binary is one general type of a gender system. Sometimes in this binary model, "sex", "gender" and "sexuality" are assumed by default to align. Gender systems around the world
In cultures where the gender binary is prominent and important, transgender people are a major exception to the societal norms related to gender. Intersex people, those who cannot be biologically determined as either male or female, are another obvious deviation. Other cultures have their own practices independent of the Western gender binary. Native American
When European settlers first arrived in North America, they discovered different Native American tribes had different concepts of sex and gender. In the Native North American society " berdaches " were given that name to identify them as gender variants. The Europeans "attempted to explain the berdache from various functional perspectives...in terms of the contributions these sex/gender roles made to social structure or culture." The term "berdache" was deemed inappropriate and insulting as time passed and awareness increased, so a new term was coined in 1990, " Two-Spirit ." There were many roles for male and female Two-Spirits, productive specialization, supernatural sanction and gender variation.