in this specific context you're neglecting that the polynesian islands have a long history of believing in a third gender.
except this is yet another case of "western academics co-opt social roles assigned to some homosexuals in non-western cultures as part of modern trans ideology."
There's also something hilarious about Western academics simultaneously recognizing that other cultures have their own sets of socially-prescribed roles and expectations related to sexual orientation/gender/etc (the Polynesian faʻafafine etc) while also decrying the existence of such roles and expectations. You can't celebrate the fact that Polynesians had a social structure in which people were assigned only one of three "genders" based on Criteria X AND demand emancipation from social structures in which people are assigned genders based on Criteria Y.
(this is all granting, for the sake of argument, the notion that "gender" here is coherent - it isn't).
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assuming you meant the 4x400, but Keaʻau finished dead last with their 2 biomales at the BIIF Champs (big islands qualifer to the state meet) running 4:38, which was 34 seconds behind the winning team and 11 seconds behind the 2nd-to-last team
4:38 in the 4x400 for dead last aint dominating
*please don't misinterpret this as me being cool with boys in girls' sport
in this specific context you're neglecting that the polynesian islands have a long history of believing in a third gender.
i get this was likely tongue in cheek, but had to look it up and in fact this is true
"Māhū ('in the middle') in Native Hawaiian and Tahitian cultures are third gender people with traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture..."
in this specific context you're neglecting that the polynesian islands have a long history of believing in a third gender.
i get this was likely tongue in cheek, but had to look it up and in fact this is true
"Māhū ('in the middle') in Native Hawaiian and Tahitian cultures are third gender people with traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture..."
Middle Eastern cultures long recognized a third gender too: think of the “Harum Eunach.”
The big difference is that the traditional Harum Eunach served/supported (biological) women; they didn’t usurp the rightful places of women or assume their roles. Contrast that with biological males competing against biological females, and oftentimes taking women’s rightful places on the podium or on medal ceremonies.
Which of the two respects biological women (even if in a manner which is archaic or foreign to Western sensibilities)?
