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Khanith (also spelled Khaneeth or referred to as Xanith; Arabic: خنيث, romanized: khanīth) denotes a person assigned male at birth who occupies an intermediate "third gender" between male and female.[1] Their mannerisms and behaviors fall between the socially constructed roles for men and women.
- ^ Amory, Deborah P.; Epprecht, Marc (1998), Murray, Stephen O.; Roscoe, Will (eds.), "Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magei: "Homosexuality" on the East African Coast", Boy-Wives and Female Husbands, Studies in African Homosexualities, State University of New York Press, pp. 65–84, ISBN 978-1-4384-8410-5, retrieved 2025-04-08