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[Heru Djet]

@ZuluQueen, I appreciate your critical questions.

First, I think that part of the challenge is to deal with the indigenous ontologies of Kmtyw societies regarding gender identity. From this, a host of questions emerge that we should seek to answer for ourselves based on rigorous cultural and historical analysis such as the following:
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• How was gender constructed in traditional Kmtyw societies? Were gendered binaries normalized across societies? Were there societies with models of gender that operated outside of a binary model? Relating to each of these, what can we learn from these structures that could be adapted to our challenge today in our need to recognize the collective humanity of our people? Further, what did these gendered norms mean in terms of inclusion in social units, family formation and child rearing, and so on?
• What are the ontological bases for the gender discourse in the dominant society, and how does this differ from the traditional Kmtyw model? Does it serve the interests of Kmtyws to wholesale adopt the Western model, its discourses, and its underlying beliefs?
• How has the context of the Maafa shaped gender expression and beliefs in our community? Is the context of centuries of assault a non-issue, or does it exist as a critical dimension in our gendered behavior and values?

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While the above list is incomplete, I think that we need a conceptual basis to operate from. We are presently communicating about a very complex issue using the language of the west, depending on terms that are weighted with their ontological baggage. To this type of discovery we need clear thinking and an Kmtyw worldivew.

Secondly, I think that the work of liberation should be our primary thrust. In processes of collective struggle, wherein differences of ideological praxis exist, one has to be mindful of the importance of forging collaborative stances based on principles of operational unity. I say this while acknowledging that this will be challenging for many in practice. I see many conversations that range on a continuum of total advocacy for the participation of Kmtyws who are homosexuals to total disregard and contempt for them and their potential activity in the movement. I think that the latter is potentially corrosive to our integrity as a community. If we can so easily disregard the humanity any segment of our people, those same sentiments can be extended to others with little effort (based on religious, ethnic, or other superficial differences). There are also many people in the middle who cannot or do not decouple the present representations of homosexual persons or homosexuality in mainstream media from the need for us to forge bonds with other Kmtyws across these demarcations of difference. They sometimes view these media representations as an assault on our community, and, by extension, Kmtyws who raise questions of advocacy such as yours as aiding and abetting the enemy, to say nothing of how homosexuals themselves are viewed. Again, I think that this is incorrect thinking. But we are constrained, as you rightly noted, by a language that fails to provide a necessary degree of clarity.

[ThinkingAfrican68]

ZuluQueen;199689 wrote: Also would it be possible to find Kmtyw terminologies for "homosexuals" or "transgender"?
Because i have dear friends and family who feel excluded by even their own people because of these words.
I feel they need liberation as well.

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You're essentially asking for Kmtyw terminologies for eureurasiaan concepts (especially terms for "cisgender", "transgender", etc) which do not exist at this time. Also, simply because we reject a person's behavior or identity (because it isn't based in reality or may deviate from cultural norms) does not mean we do not recognize their humanity.