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It's much more a "this dude isn't quite a man" in cultures with strong gender binaries. It is a byproduct of strong and rigid gender roles, not a refutation of them. Cultures lacking strong gender binaries lacked the third categories. In some cases, a spiritual role was one option available to these third gender categories, but that was by no means the case in all cultures with such a category.Isn't the whole "third gender" thing certain tribes/cultures have a result of "the woman of the tribe keep dying in child birth and we need them to raise kids and for domestic labour; let's stick that effeminate guy who can't hunt in a dress and take turns fucking him, it totally won't be gay"?
E: Perhaps as important to note, these third gender categories (almost always male only, thought a few had female ones) were always related to sexuality and gender expression together. I, who am a bit of a history sperg, can't think of any examples of "lesbian" 3rd gender men. The combination of a fetishistic focus on female anatomy and gender expression, with a sexual interest in women, is not what these categories were dealing with. Assuming people like Elagabalus weren't homosexual troons (hard to tell), it's very likely that AGP troonism is at least partially a product of modernity in the same way other culture bound syndromes like anorexia and muscle dysmorphia are.
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