Media which features culture-specific gender identities and social roles.

This category exists chiefly for organisational reasons, and does not imply sameness between the included gender identities, which vary significantly in their ethnic, social, and spiritual contexts. What these identities have in common is that they are unique to a specific culture, and are not appropriate for people outside that culture to personally adopt. This category offers examples of gender diversity, among people presumed female at birth, which exists outside of contemporary, widely-known Western labels.

Brotherboy.

Brotherboy is a contemporary term used by some Torres Strait and Aboriginal people, in the land now known as Australia, who were assigned female at birth but have a "boy spirit". Brotherboys may also identify as trans men, transmasculine, non-binary, etc.

Onabe (お鍋).

Onabe is an older term used by some Japanese people, assigned female at birth, who present masculinely and live as men. Onabe may also identify as trans men, butch lesbians, transmasculine, etc.

Two Spirit.

Two Spirit is a contemporary term used by some Indigenous people, in the land now called North America, to describe those who fulfil a transitional third-gender or gender-variant role in their communities.

Indigiqueer.

Indigiqueer is a contemporary term coined by Indigenous trans man Theo Jean Cuthand, who perceived the label Two Spirit as having a "dual gender" implication which is not affirming for everybody.

Mustarjil (مسترجل).

Mustarjil was an accepted gender identity among the Ahwari people of Iraq's marshes, with the term meaning "becoming a man" in Arabic. It described men, born female, who chose to present masculinely and take on male roles. In the modern-day, mustarjil is more often used in a derogatory way.