Travesti and transgender are two terms which, in translation, can get lost in the other’s connotations. By better understanding the overlaps and complexities between travesti and transgender identities and needs...
Indigenous communities in Oaxaca have histories of gender fluidity that date back before colonialism in Mexico and have continued to support third gender identities in the present.
The term “transgender” is most helpful in discussing the modern gender systems and identities around which it came into use; in other contexts, like the study of pre-colonial America, using...