Anonymous
8/22/2025, 9:16:58 PM
No.17941534
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Acceptance of transgenderism in very trad societies?
Is there a specific reason why there were so many examples of very conservative societies tolerating gender fluidity and homosexuality?
>One afternoon, some, days after leaving Dibin, we arrived at a village on the
mainland. The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his
mudhif by a boy wearing a head-rope and cloak, with a dagger at his waist. He looked
about fifteen and his beautiful face was made even more striking by two long braids of
hair on either side. In the past all the Madan wore their hair like that, as the Bedu still
did. After the boy had made us coffee and withdrawn, Amara asked, ‘Did you realize
that was a mustarjil?’ I had vaguely heard of them, but had not met one before.
>'A mustarjil is born a woman,’ Amara explained. ‘She cannot help that; but she has
the heart of a man, so she lives like a man.’
>‘Do men accept her?’
>‘Certainly. We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif. When she dies, we fire off
our rifles to honour her. We never do that for a woman. In Majid’s village there is one
who fought bravely in the war against Haji Sulaiman.’
>‘Do they always wear their hair plaited?’
>‘Usually they shave it off like men.’
>‘Do mustarjils ever marry?’
>‘No, they sleep with women as we do.’
Marsh Arabs (1964) by Wilfrid thesiger
I've read MANY other examples of them here but currently don't have them at hand. feel free to post them anons.
>One afternoon, some, days after leaving Dibin, we arrived at a village on the
mainland. The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his
mudhif by a boy wearing a head-rope and cloak, with a dagger at his waist. He looked
about fifteen and his beautiful face was made even more striking by two long braids of
hair on either side. In the past all the Madan wore their hair like that, as the Bedu still
did. After the boy had made us coffee and withdrawn, Amara asked, ‘Did you realize
that was a mustarjil?’ I had vaguely heard of them, but had not met one before.
>'A mustarjil is born a woman,’ Amara explained. ‘She cannot help that; but she has
the heart of a man, so she lives like a man.’
>‘Do men accept her?’
>‘Certainly. We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif. When she dies, we fire off
our rifles to honour her. We never do that for a woman. In Majid’s village there is one
who fought bravely in the war against Haji Sulaiman.’
>‘Do they always wear their hair plaited?’
>‘Usually they shave it off like men.’
>‘Do mustarjils ever marry?’
>‘No, they sleep with women as we do.’
Marsh Arabs (1964) by Wilfrid thesiger
I've read MANY other examples of them here but currently don't have them at hand. feel free to post them anons.
