Editing Third gender (section)

===Latin America and the Caribbean===
[[File:AMT 1989 crop.jpg|thumb|upright|A group of Argentine [[Travesti (gender identity)|travestis]] working as [[street prostitutes]] at a slum in [[Buenos Aires Province]], 1989.]]
*''Biza'ah'': In Teotitlán, they have their own version of the ''muxe'' that they call biza'ah. According to Stephen, there were only 7 individuals in that community considered to be biza'ah in comparison to the muxe, of which there were many.<ref name="stephen" /> Like the ''muxe'' they were well-liked and accepted in the community.<ref name="stephen" /> Their way of walking, talking and the work that they perform are markers of recognizing biza'ah.<ref name="stephen" />
* Southern Mexico: ''[[Muxe]]'', In many Zapotec communities, third gender roles are often apparent.<ref name="stephen">Lynn Stephen. ''Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec Oaxaca''. Latin American Perspectives. 29(2)41–59</ref> The ''muxe'' are described as a third gender; biologically male but with feminine characteristics.<ref name="stephen" /> They are not considered to be homosexuals, but rather just another gender.<ref name="stephen" /> Some will marry women and have families, others will form relationships with men.<ref name="stephen" /> Although it is recognized that these individuals have the bodies of men, they perform gender differently than men, it is not a masculine persona, but neither is it a feminine persona that they perform but, in general, a combination of the two.<ref name="stephen" /> Lynn Stephen quotes Jeffrey Rubin, "Prominent men who [were] rumoured to be homosexual and did not adopt the ''muxe'' identity were spoken of pejoratively", suggesting that ''muxe'' gender role was more acceptable in the community.<ref name="stephen" />
* The [[Travesti (gender identity)|travesti]]s of Latin America have been considered an expression of a third gender by a wide range of anthropological studies, although this view has been contested by later authors.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Cabral |first=Julieta |title=Geografía travesti: Cuerpos, sexualidad y migraciones de travestis brasileñas (Rio de Janeiro-Barcelona) |degree=doctoral thesis |publisher=[[Universitat de Barcelona]] |url=https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/95889 |language=es |year=2012 |access-date=7 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Fernández |first=Josefina |title=Cuerpos desobedientes: travestismo e identidad de género |publisher=Edhasa |year=2004 |isbn=950-9009-16-4 |location=Buenos Aires |page=41 |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kulick |first=Don |title=Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=978-022-646-099-4 |series=Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture |page=230 |author-link=Don Kulick}}</ref>
*''Tida wena'': Among the Indigenous [[Warao people]] of Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname, people considered to be neither man nor woman. Historically respected, and sometimes serving as [[shamans]] or in other honored positions in their tribes.<ref name="TidaWena">{{Cite web |last=Laiz |first=Alvaro |date=2012 |title=Wonderland, the strange inhabitants of Delta Amacuro |url=https://phmuseum.com/alvarolaizgmailcom/story/wonderland-the-strange-inhabitants-of-delta-amacuro-189e1bf37c |access-date=7 August 2021 |website=Port Huron Museum |language=en-US |quote=The Warao, as it happens in other ethnic groups, considers certain people are not man neither woman. They call them Tida Wena.}}</ref>