Meaning of meta-gender | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“A still more nuanced gender-system exists in Sulawesi, in the Indonesian archipelago, where among the Bugis people there are “three sexes (female, male, intersex), four genders (women, men, calabai [false woman], and calatai [false man], and a fifth meta-gender group, the bissu [literally 'transvestite priest,' but in fact hermaphroditic]” (Graham, 2001).”

“Some students would be homosexual, some trans-gender, but Mr. Dame suspected that Joey was one of the occasional still-confused youngsters of meta-gender: always outside any identifiable boundary and stuck being uncomfortable in their own skin.”

“The Bugis, an Indigenous Indonesian ethnic group, recognize three sexes, four genders, and a meta-gender.”

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