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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Our Filipino ancestors had four genders. You'd describe them in modern parlance as masculine male, masculine female, feminine male, feminine female.

IDK if 'Bakla' has been reclaimed or not, but before it was turned into a derogatory term, it was the name of a gender (describing a feminine male).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So Femboy and Tomboy are both separate genders?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Were separate genders (as in, it was unanimously accepted across the culture). 'Tomboy' still gets used in Tagalog I think?