muxe
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of muxe
From Zapotec, from Spanish mujer “woman”
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Elvis Guerra, 30, the queen in waiting, explains that the muxe stand in solidarity with burgeoning gender rights movements worldwide, pronouncing themselves trailblazers of cultural preservation and inclusion in a rural bastion of Catholicism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Across the globe, there are examples of other Indigenous communities like the muxe who don’t fit into the standard binary gender matrix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
“Even though I am not muxe from the isthmus, for me the word implies respect and tolerance,” said Lía Maritza Sánchez, 51, an L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The muxe population numbers in the thousands, experts estimate, but there is no census.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
She sat patiently as ardent beauticians prepared her for her formal investiture, a highlight of the three-day festival — or vela — that celebrates muxe culture here every November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Many gay and trans people in Mexico City and elsewhere call themselves muxes — though community leaders here, concerned about cultural appropriation, say only Zapotec people from the isthmus can qualify.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
For centuries Mexico's indigenous Zapotec people have recognized a third sex known as "muxes," a third gender that includes both masculine and feminine traits.
From Salon ● May 22, 2023
There, alongside a community of fellow muxes — people who are born male but who adopt roles and identities associated with women — she will vie to be crowned the queen of the ceremony.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Born in the southern state of Oaxaca, Marven is of Mixtec origin and identifies with the neighboring Zapotec indigenous transgender tradition of muxes, who mix gay male and female characteristics.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2021
Later, I would learn about muxes in Oaxaca.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2019
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