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ElwoodBlues · M
@LLcoolK claims
Aristotle (fourth century BCE) had a different name for the three genders (Poetics 21): masculine, feminine, and “in between” (μεταξύ).
The Talmud, a huge and authoritative compendium of Jewish legal traditions, contains in fact no less than eight gender designations including:
1. Zachar, male.
2. Nekevah, female.
3. Androgynos, having both male and female characteristics.
4. Tumtum, lacking sexual characteristics.
5. Aylonit hamah, identified female at birth but later naturally developing male characteristics.
6. Aylonit adam, identified female at birth but later developing male characteristics through human intervention.
7. Saris hamah, identified male at birth but later naturally developing female characteristics.
8. Saris adam, identified male at birth and later developing female characteristics through human intervention.
Source: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/
You can find other sources listing six or eight genders from Talmudic studies. Apparently six of them are mentioned "hundreds" of times; perhaps the other two don't get so many mentions?
@TinyViolins
... points to the relatively undisputed recognition of only two genders.
DUUUDE!!!Aristotle (fourth century BCE) had a different name for the three genders (Poetics 21): masculine, feminine, and “in between” (μεταξύ).
Yet to some degree, Aristotle did view the intersexual as a type of physical twin (Fausto-Sterling 33). Aristotle did not think that genitalia defined one’s gender. Instead, he thought that “the heat of the heart determined one’s maleness or femaleness” (Fausto-Sterling 33). Aristotle, with his emphasis on matter, proposed that intersexuality occurred when a mother had more than enough material in her womb to create one child, but not enough to create two; the extra matter became the extra genitalia of the intersexual (Fausto-Sterling 33). Yet per Aristotle’s thinking, the soul of an intersexual individual remained neither male nor female.
The Talmud, a huge and authoritative compendium of Jewish legal traditions, contains in fact no less than eight gender designations including:
1. Zachar, male.
2. Nekevah, female.
3. Androgynos, having both male and female characteristics.
4. Tumtum, lacking sexual characteristics.
5. Aylonit hamah, identified female at birth but later naturally developing male characteristics.
6. Aylonit adam, identified female at birth but later developing male characteristics through human intervention.
7. Saris hamah, identified male at birth but later naturally developing female characteristics.
8. Saris adam, identified male at birth and later developing female characteristics through human intervention.
Source: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/
You can find other sources listing six or eight genders from Talmudic studies. Apparently six of them are mentioned "hundreds" of times; perhaps the other two don't get so many mentions?
@TinyViolins