DYK #Catholic church fathers decreed in the 13thC that an #intersex person had to live in a strict #GenderBinary, either girl or boy? No #GenderAmbiguity. No one could be #GenderFluid. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #InterSexAwareness

DYK #GenderAmbiguity worked up authorities in the English colonies? They wouldn’t put up w/it—even if it was anatomical. Anyone w/what we know as an #intersex condition was a monster. In 1629, residents of Warrosquyoacke, Virginia, got suspicious of Thomas Hall.

Similarly, only a few series in the 2020s had characters with #genderambiguity (Attack on Titan, Komi Can't Communicate, and One Piece). Only one of those currently airing: One Piece. (220/?) #analysis #representation #lgbtq #popculture #analysis #misrepresentation

If a person is unaware of the perspective they approach the world from, they risk thinking that their opinion is reality.

That the paper map IS the ground they tread upon.

1 eg: #Intersex #GenderAmbiguity #AtypicalGenetalia is a physical reality that cannot fit into binary gender constructs.

Gilded mask fragment Plaster, gold leaf, stone; Egypt; Ptolemaic-Roman periods (1st c. BCE-1st c. CE); 14.5 cm h.; Source: D. L. Askren, 1925; Kelsey Museum 4651

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#GenderAmbiguity
#ancientEgypt #artifacts

Truth! RT @Mkr512: @AmandaJoy can relate RT @Variety_AJM Have been called "sir" in 2 emails in less than 24 hrs #genderambiguity #AJproblems