A They joined the U.S Army
Yoruba, Kongo, Benin, Zimbabwe
They don't have a strong connection with other African nations.
So they are not influenced by Islamic religion.
We distinguish between "sex" and "gender".
Your sex is what you're born as, the physical body, you're either a man or a woman.
Your gender is something that you construct. That means, you may feel like either a man or a woman.
In some cases your physical sex and your constructed gender don't match, and you have people who feel as if they had been born in the wrong body.