{"id":1195,"date":"2003-06-04T20:10:29","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/06\/04\/1195.html"},"modified":"2003-06-04T20:10:29","modified_gmt":"2003-06-05T03:10:29","slug":"third-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/06\/04\/third-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Third sex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/matociquala.livejournal.com\/\">eBear<\/a> (<lj user=\"matociquala \n\">) (that's an LJ-specific link in those parens; I'm not sure how best to integrate those into the look of the non-LJ version of my journal) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niherlas.com\/stella\/\">Stella<\/a> for the pointer to a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newint.org\/issue300\/trans.html\">article about the \"guevedoche\"<\/a> of the Dominican Republic&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isna.org\/\">intersexed<\/a> people who are genetically male, but born with female-looking genitals, but develop male secondary sexual characteristics at puberty.  The article says that \"[v]illagers, who were familiar with the guevedoche over generations, accepted them as a 'third sex' category, sometimes referring to them as machi-embra (male-female).\"<\/p>\n<p>I haven't had time to read the rest of the article yet, and probably won't for a while.  But looks interesting.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to eBear () (that&#8217;s an LJ-specific link in those parens; I&#8217;m not sure how best to integrate those into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}