Muxe

Now, we must acknowledge complexity.

Juchitán is not paradise, and the Muxes will be the first to tell you so.

Acceptance in a family is not the same as acceptance everywhere.

Some parents still turn a child away.

Outside the isthmus, in the rest of Mexico, Muxes face the same hostility that trans and gender-nonconforming people face across the world, and sometimes worse.

The town's famous matriarchy, the idea that women rule Juchitán, is partly a legend too.

The women run the market, but men still hold most of the power.

Even the phrase third gender is one that outsiders brought.