Jack Eller interprets gender as the following “the social or cultural characteristics- rules, roles, tasks, values, and meanings - that are assigned to people on the basis of (some or another) sexual characteristics.” In western culture it is believed that there are only two genders, male and female but on every single continent there are cultures that believe, or used to believe that there can be three, four, or five genders to either be born into or that you can choose to be. Although now we are becoming more tolerable to the idea of there being more than one gender now with the transgender movement there are still multiple lesser known genders around the world. The Brazilians for instance have a third gender called Travesti. They pride
