I was surprised to read and hear about the existence of multiple non-binary gender systems. I was aware that people in other countries did things differently from the United States because I took Sociology 121: Understanding Cultures. However, I did not realize that gender is performed in many and varying ways across the world. In the textbook, the authors talked about how “some societies acknowledged three, four, or even five genders” (Wade & Ferree, 2015, p. 12). It was interesting to read how people in other cultures are not forced into one of two “boxes” like in the United States. Also, people in other societies are not classified as male or female based on genitalia. The Dayak for example are categorized as male or female based on their
