gendered person fa'afatama http://homosaurus.org/v2/faafatama A gender role and/or identity that is part of Samoan culture. Typically, it refers to persons who are assigned female at birth and who embody both masculine and feminine traits to some degree. Such persons may characterize themselves as transgender men, cisgender lesbians, masculine women, tomboys, or a distinctly different category of experience. fa'atama fa'atane fafatama Oceanian culturally-specific gender identity