The difference between Sworn virgin and Third gender

When used as nouns, sworn virgin means a person, born a woman, who adopts a traditional masculine third-gender or transmasculine role in the balkans, wearing masculine clothing and performing masculine tasks, and traditionally swearing a vow of chastity, whereas third gender means a category (a gender), present in societies which recognize three or more genders, which is neither male nor female.


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  1. Sworn virgin as a noun:

    A person, born a woman, who adopts a traditional masculine third-gender or transmasculine role in the Balkans, wearing masculine clothing and performing masculine tasks, and traditionally swearing a vow of chastity.

  2. Sworn virgin as a noun:

  1. Third gender as a noun (anthropology):

    A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize three or more genders, which is neither male nor female; in some societies, the category may contain individuals who are intersex or androgynous, while other societies may categorize transgender people into it.

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