pinifera answered:

Sorry, your postmodern relativist bs just won’t work on me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I really and truly do not give a fuck if other cultures have/had their own special ways of alienating gay, gnc, infertile, intersex or castrated people. Have you considered the fact that most of these classes are only accessible to males? That females around the world have never had the option to identify out of their role of baby factory? Or how about the fact that many of them are essentially akin to words like “f*ggot” or “queer”, used to separate gay people (typically men) from the rest of society?

Do you think these cultures are enlightened because they had such strict gender roles that anyone who stepped outside of them was considered some kind of third sex? This is simply patriarchy manifesting in different ways around the globe. I know that because in all of these cultures women, female people, are still oppressed. Do you think the fact that there is a special word for gnc people in Hinduism has any impact on how females are treated? Do you think it changes the fact that Indian women and girls are married off to men they don’t know who abuse them with zero consequence? Does it change the fact that India has one of the highest rates of sex selective abortions in the world, to the point that some places have no female children?

Have you talked to people from these cultures? I have. I have friends from all over the world, from across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and we have talked extensively about these roles. In fact, I am currently sat in a room with two people from a culture that have one of the categories you mentioned (first one, tritiya-prakrti). They said “they are men who apparently have women’s souls. People are disgusted by them but everyone is too afraid of them to say it. They’re like witches or blackmouth*”. Notice that they are still considered men, just gender non conforming men and are therefore hated and rejected.

And you know what else? Female rights in their country are practically non existent. The majority of women are malnourished because they are only allowed to eat when the men have finished. 52% of women there are illiterate. They are made to stay in tiny, suffocating sheds when they menstruate because they are deemed too impure to even see the sun. So tell me why I should care about third gender categories when gender continues to be a tool of women’s abuse. Why should I give a squirt of piss about their “non binary genders” when it only benefits men, when women are treated like dogs regardless?

They know which people are male and which are female and the females are the ones who are oppressed in every corner of this earth because of their reproductive abiities. Don’t come here with your “the noble Pee Oh Cees didn’t know the difference between a dick and a pussy until white people showed them!” because it erases the suffering of the global majority of women throughout history and into modern times. It erases the fact that men of all cultures perpetuate patriarchal ideals.

I am against gender in all forms because, essentially, it is a hierarchy that places men on top and women on the bottom, with people who step outside of it being punished. It is used to control and abuse. It is undeniably a product of patriarchy. You can dress it up differently or call it by some other name but male supremacy is male supremacy.

*Not sure what blackmouth is. I think they might have meant blackmail (like they’ll blackmail you)