A Brief History of Mexico’s Third Gender

Muxes are often misunderstood and discriminated against outside rural Mexico.

Culture Trip
The Omnivore
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3 min readJan 10, 2018

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By Lauren Cocking

In a small town in rural, indigenous Mexico, there exists a third gender known as muxe (sometimes spelled muxhe) among the Zapotec peoples. Considered neither male nor female, rather somewhere in-between like the hijras of

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