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"Faʻafafine (translated: "in the manner of a woman") are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. Fa'afafine are not assigned the role at birth, nor raised as girls due to a lack of daughters, as is often claimed in western media. Rather, their femininity emerges in early childhood, and Samoans recognize them as distinct from typical boys."

Anglo culture would do well to discard binary absolutism.