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Fa'afafine is a third gender specific to Samoan culture.

Fa'afafine are biological males who have a strong feminine gender orientation, which the Samoan parents recognize quite early in childhood, and then raise them as female children or rather 'third gender' children. They grow up as Fa'afafines, who are a gender category/identity altogether different from men and women, and so they have their distinct gender roles specific to them, different from both men and women. It is something which is not discouraged in the traditional fa'asamoa (Samoan society).

_ This is unrelated to the original question, fa'afafine are not homosexuals, and the question was for the translation of a whole sentence, not a word.

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