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Apart from being hilarious, it threw me back some four years, to the year I spent as volunteer in a rural community of Yunnan, gathering enough oddities to last a lifetime of a blog. One of my colleagues in the school was a young male teacher who was obviously very feminine, and completely unashamed about it. As the year dragged on and I got to know the people better, another teacher told me the guy’s mother really wanted a girl, but when she couldn’t have one, she started dressing her son in girl’s clothes – something that lasted for several years.
The other teachers and village people thought it all a bit odd, but never held it against him. women generally liked him and none of the men seemed to be the least uncomfortable around him. Also, as far as I could tell he didn’t have any problem managing classes of 50 or more unruly teenagers.
I can imagine his emotional life being pretty complicated, but all and all, I believe he was probably better off in that backward, very conservative rural community than he would have been in many liberal societies.
Once, when having a girls talk with some of the female teachers, I was stunned to learn they all thought him to be the cutest guy around. (He was very far from my standard of cuteness, but then again, that year turned on its head almost everything I once believed to be universal standards).
Is it possible that just as in China its easier to accept the idea of more than one god, it is natural to think there are more than two genders? what an exiting thought.