[Music] in many cultures a person existing outside the two accepted genders is seen as confronting even threatening but gender is defined by culture and on South sui the Bugis believe that in addition to men women and bisu there are two more these two additional genders are made up of people who in the west would be considered transvestites tambo's gender is chalalai biologically she's female but she lives as a [Music] man I feel comfortable as chalalai my family is also comfortable as long as I'm a good person and I work hard people accept me Abdul Ramen or poppy is chalabi he has male genitalia but has lived as a woman since he was 16 years old I'm not special the Boogie culture accepts all five genders tamboo and Poppy join the fertility ceremony because according to high priest puang matoa all five genders must coexist for there to be Universal Harmony there are five genders and we don't need to separate People based on their gender because everything must live in harmony if one of the genders is separated then the world would become [Music] [Applause] unbalanced at a sacred cave three miles from sigari the bizu begin the first stage of the blessing an offering to the [Music] Earth the Bugis believe the universe has three levels heaven where P to lives the middle world where humans live and the underworld where the spirits live we pray that everything animals plants people everything stays connected with each other not only from this Village or the district but the whole country the whole world is kept in balance and safe [Music] the second stage of the blessing is an offering to the spirits because of their bisu gender the boogies believe that bisu priests can communicate with them puang matoa must be possessed by a spirit from the underworld before the fertility ritual can be completed in order for bisu to be able to bestow particular blessings they have to be be able to contact the spirit world and part of the reason they can contact the spirit world is because they are male and female embodiment and then the bisu with all of those combinations of female male spiritual powers can bestow a very strong blessing