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In Sinaloa, Mexico, home to one of the world's most powerful drug cartels and famed for ostentatious displays of wealth, people clamor for exotic animals.

The muxe — Indigenous Zapotec people in Mexico — view themselves as neither man nor woman. They embrace a distinct 'third gender,' part of a burgeoning LGBTQ+ movement worldwide.