Saturday, July 8, 2023

Nonbinary genders beyond 'male' and 'female' would have been no surprise to ancient rabbis, who acknowledged tumtums, androgynos and aylonot

Rabbinic literature, the body of texts written by Jewish leaders in antiquity, includes several other categories. In these texts, a person with both sets of external genitalia is called an "androgynos," a term borrowed from Greek. A person with neither is called a "tumtum," and a person who loses his male sexual organs is called a "saris." There is also a term for someone whose sex assigned at birth is female but does not develop to female sexual maturity – in some cases, because they develop "male" traits: an "aylonit."…

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