Many gender systems around the world include three or more genders, deriving the concept either from the traditional, historical recognition of such individuals or from its modern development in the lgbtq community, which can include third gender. Third sexthe term third sex originated in the late nineteenth century among sexologists as a way to describe homosexual men and lesbians It did not carry the moral or legal stigma of sodomite, and suggested an innate or biological factor existed in behaviors that fell outside traditional categories of male and female Third gender explained third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither a man nor a woman It is also a social category present in societies that recognize three or more genders The term third is usually understood to mean other, though some anthropologists and sociologists have described fourth [1] and fifth [2] genders
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