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Zapotec cultures have "Muxes", people born male at birth but dress and behave as women which is described as a third gender. Was this rooted in Mesoamerican culture and if it is, what their view on gender an outlier among Mesoamerica?

by /u/Chicano_Ducky in /r/AskHistorians

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