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* '''Name of identity:''' Fa'afafine, meaning "in the manner of a woman" in Samoa<ref name=":1">Wade, Lisa & Myra Marz Ferree.  ''Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions.''  New York: W. W. Norton, 2015.</ref>.
* '''Name of identity:''' Fa'afafine, meaning "in the manner of a woman" in Samoa<ref name=":1">Wade, Lisa & Myra Marz Ferree.  ''Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions.''  New York: W. W. Norton, 2015.</ref>. Fa'atama, meaning "in the manner of a boy"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fa%27atama |title= Wiktionary-Entry |access-date 19 MAy 2021}}</ref>
* '''Culture:''' Samoa
* '''Culture:''' Samoa
* '''Era:''' traditional to present
* '''Era:''' traditional to present
* '''Description of sex/gender:''' AMAB and feminine
* '''Description of sex/gender:''' Third and fourth genders for AFAB and AMAB.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://nhm.org/stories/beyond-gender-indigenous-perspectives-faafafine-and-faafatama |title= Beyond Gender: Indigenous Perspectives, Fa’afafine and Fa’afatama |publisher= Natural History Museum of LA County |access-date= 19 May 2021}}</ref>
* '''Role in society:''' Faʻafafine are known for their hard work and dedication to the family, in the Samoan tradition of ''tautua'' or service to family. Ideas of the family in Samoa and Polynesia are markedly different from Western constructions, and include all the members of a ''sa'', or communal family within the ''faʻamatai'' family systems.<ref>Saleimoa Vaai, Samoa Faa-matai and the Rule of Law (Apia: The National University of Samoa Le Papa-I-Galagala, 1999).</ref> Traditionally, faʻafafine follow the training of the women's daily work in an ''Aiga'' (Samoan family group).<ref>Danielsson, B., T. Danielsson, and R. Pierson. 1978. Polynesia's third sex: The gay life starts in the kitchen. Pacific Islands Monthly 49:10–13.</ref>
* '''Role in society:''' Faʻafafine are known for their hard work and dedication to the family, in the Samoan tradition of ''tautua'' or service to family. Ideas of the family in Samoa and Polynesia are markedly different from Western constructions, and include all the members of a ''sa'', or communal family within the ''faʻamatai'' family systems.<ref>Saleimoa Vaai, Samoa Faa-matai and the Rule of Law (Apia: The National University of Samoa Le Papa-I-Galagala, 1999).</ref> Traditionally, faʻafafine follow the training of the women's daily work in an ''Aiga'' (Samoan family group).<ref>Danielsson, B., T. Danielsson, and R. Pierson. 1978. Polynesia's third sex: The gay life starts in the kitchen. Pacific Islands Monthly 49:10–13.</ref>


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