The Intrepid Ones: Muxes, The Third Gender Of Oaxaca

“The indigenous Zapotec culture of Oaxaca is not divided by the usual dichotomies: gay or straight, male or female. There’s a commonly accepted third category of mixed gender – people called muxes (said to derive from mujer – Spanish for ‘woman’). Some are men who live as women, or who identify beyond a single gender.”