In the reading, Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California by Deborah A. Miranda, she reveals the genocide of the joyas or most commonly known as the third gender people native to California by the Spanish. Within their communities, the joyas were respected, but to the Spaniards, they deserved nothing less than death. "Spanish soldiers had a different, less patient method. They threw the joyas to their dogs" (source). They viewed joyas as practicing "the execrable, unnatural abuse of their bodies" and reported that "we place our trust in God and expect that these accursed people will disappear with the growth of the missions" (257). However, Spaniards never saw their beliefs as gendercide, the killing of an individual because
