Many premodern societies have found ways to accommodate non-binary and trans identities, living with far less technological insulation from threats to survival. Also, it’s now well known that homosexuality is a part of many animal species’ repertoire of behaviours. Significantly, homophobia is only known in one species: humans.8 What’s more, science is becoming aware of more and more exotic sex and gender variations in the animal kingdom — slowly catching up with indigenous knowledge systems, which often appreciated and embraced these variations.9