"The gender of Lan Caihe is unknown. ... Chinese theatre portrays Lan as wearing feminine clothes, but speaking in a masculine voice ... Lan was said to have been a man who could not understand how to be a man."
Lan Caihe is an immortal from Taoist mythology who has been gender nonconforming for several dynasties, who was originally a homeless street performer. I've finished rewriting this former stub from all sources I can access without resorting to interlibrary loans. This now appears to be the most thorough piece of writing about Lan Caihe in any Western language (and I'd love to be proven wrong about that).
Thanks to @zebratron2084 for finding what appears to be the article I remembered: a facsimile from 1692 explaining that English has six grammatical genders, for men, women, angels, stars, months, winds, ships, nations, rivers, fowls, eagles, and "doubtful genders" (implied to be singular "they") for cousins, thieves, friends, enemies, servants, and so on! Read it here:
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A recommended YA novel about #dragons: _A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans_, by Laurence Yep and Joanne Rider. It's an urban fantasy novel about magic creatures secretly living in San Francisco. My favorite point made about dragons in the first book: when someone asks a dragon if she's an Eastern or Western dragon because of this or that characteristic, she scoffs, and explains only humans think of dragons in categories like that, because every dragon is unique. This is so my jam. https://dragon.style/media/-tEmEA7qNWx-mfXviIA
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