View source for Essay:Gender and sexuality diversity is not Western influence, it is inherent to all humankind

This essay is a work in progress.

Addressing accusations of trans infiltration and western influence into indigenous communities
The prevalence of same sex orientations and transgender identities 
...in worldwide cultures
...in other species
The question of tradition
What is to be done?
Cishetero Chauvinist Nationalism and its contradictions

https://daily.jstor.org/the-deviant-african-genders-that-colonialism-condemned/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXQDvO9YgQ&ab_channel=AJContrast
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/29/faafafine-yuki-kihara-celebrates-samoas-third-gender-galleries-think-they-can-tick-the-box-with-me
https://nhm.org/stories/beyond-gender-indigenous-perspectives-faafafine-and-faafatama
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandan-trans-campaigner-wants-her-community-recognised-next-census-2021-11-18/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandan-trans-campaigner-wants-her-community-recognised-next-census-2021-11-18/
https://www.dw.com/en/indonesias-first-transgender-public-official-breaks-conservative-mold/a-54540510
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2150773/chinas-transgender-people-step-forward-shadows
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-36321816
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/08/indian-transgender-couple-tie-knot-in-landmark-rainbow-wedding


Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology, compiled by Gay American Indians, Will Roscoe
Two Spirit People - American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men by Lester B. Brown, PDH, Editor

☭ '''LGBT, Indigeneity, and Socialism'''

There has always been more than two genders, worldwide. Only with imperialism, colonialism, and maybe early empires(?) was there any attack upon gender, because gender diverse bodies are inconvenient to imperialist ambitions. LGBTphobia increases when capitalism and imperialism enter. It's hard not to be Marxist if you are LGBT, look at the way gender and sexuality were colonized. It's the imperialism question again, and Marxist Leninism is the answer to that question. Dialectical materialism also proves there are more than 2 genders and people can change their gender.

I highly recommend Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg. And of course, none of this is a replacement for listening to native elders, it is an additional resource.