To start, let’s get one thing straight: The concept of gender is extremely expansive and there are infinite ways people can identify, especially outside of the gender binary. The idea that only two genders exist is wholly false, and erases the history of people who have long rejected the biological and psychological binaries of sex and gender, such as those who fall under the umbrella term “third gender.”
The term “third gender” is used to describe someone who does not identify within “the extremely limiting and wholly inaccurate notion of a gender binary,” of male and/or female, says Dr. Rachel Lynn Golden, a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher on sexuality
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