Editing Third gender (section)

==== Inuit ====
[[Inuit religion]] states that one of the first [[angakkuq]] was a third gender being known as Itijjuaq who discovered the first [[amulet]].<ref name="inuit-third-gender">{{Cite journal |last=D'Anglure |first=Bernard |date=November 2005 |title=The 'Third Gender' of the Inuit |journal=Diogenes |volume=52 |issue=4 |page=138 <!-- |pages=134-144 --> |doi=10.1177/0392192105059478 |s2cid=145220849}}</ref>

Historically, [[Inuit]] in areas of the [[Northern Canada|Canadian Arctic]], such as [[Igloolik]] and [[Nunavik]], had a third gender concept called ''[[sipiniq]]'' ({{Langx|iu|ᓯᐱᓂᖅ}}).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Issenman |first=Betty Kobayashi |title=Sinews of Survival: the Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing |publisher=UBC Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-7748-5641-6 |location=Vancouver |pages=214 |oclc=923445644}}</ref> A ''sipiniq'' infant was believed to have changed their physical sex from male to female at the moment of birth.<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Eric Alden |last2=Smith |first2=S. Abigail |last3=Anderson |first3=Judith |last4=Mulder |first4=Monique Borgerhoff |last5=Burch |first5=Ernest S. |last6=Damas |first6=David |last7=Graburn |first7=Nelson H. H. |last8=Remie |first8=Cornelius H. W. |last9=Roth |first9=Eric Abella |last10=Wenzel |first10=George W. |display-authors=2 |date=1994 |title=Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation: Population Control, Ethnographic Error, or Parental Manipulation? [and Comments and Reply] |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2744084 |journal=Current Anthropology |volume=35 |issue=5 |pages=617 |doi=10.1086/204319 |issn=0011-3204 |jstor=2744084 |s2cid=143679341}}</ref> ''Sipiniq'' children were regarded as socially male, and would be named after a male relative, perform a male's tasks, and would wear [[Inuit clothing|traditional clothing]] tailored for men's tasks. This generally lasted until puberty, but in some cases continued into adulthood and even after the ''sipiniq'' person married a man.<ref name=":112">{{Cite book |last=Stern |first=Pamela R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cngl1Ho6uFwC&q=sipiniit&pg=PA12 |title=Daily Life of the Inuit |date=16 June 2010 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-36312-2 |pages=11–12 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Netsilik Inuit]] used the word ''kipijuituq'' for a similar concept.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Walley |first=Meghan |date=2018 |title=Exploring Potential Archaeological Expressions of Nonbinary Gender in Pre-Contact Inuit Contexts |journal=Études/Inuit/Studies |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=269–289 |doi=10.7202/1064504ar |issn=0701-1008 |jstor=26775769|s2cid=204473441 |doi-access=free }}</ref>