Heterosexual women trust mating-relevant advice received from gay men more than that received from heterosexual women. This trust is predicated on women’s perception that gay men lack ulterior sexual motives and romantically pursue other gay men. However, this trust may not hold in all cultures. For example, in both Samoa and the Istmo Zapotec of Southern Mexico, women take part in mate competition against feminine same-sex attracted males—referred to as fa’afafine and muxe, respectively—who regularly engage in sexual activity with masculine men. The present studies sought to replicate and extend research on women’s trust in males who are same-sex attracted. Experiments were conducted in Canada, Samoa, and the Istmo Zapotec, with women randomly assigned to consider the likelihood of various mate-poaching behaviors performed by either a rival woman or a same-sex attracted male. In Canada, women were more trusting of cisgender gay men than other women. Similarly, Samoan women were more trusting of fa’afafine than other women. In the Istmo Zapotec, women were equally distrustful of women and feminine muxe gunaa, whereas more masculine muxe nguiiu were rated as more trustworthy than women and muxe gunaa. These results illustrate that women’s trust in same-sex attracted males varies both between and within cultural contexts, perhaps impacted by the relative femininity of the male in question.

与异性恋女性相比，异性恋女性更相信从男同性恋那里得到的与交配相关的建议。这种信任基于女性的看法，即男同性恋没有别有用心的性动机并且浪漫地追求其他男同性恋。然而，这种信任可能并不适用于所有文化。例如，在萨摩亚和墨西哥南部的 Istmo Zapotec，女性参加与女性同性吸引男性的配偶竞争——被称为fa'afafine和muxe，分别——他们经常与男性男性发生性行为。目前的研究试图复制和扩展关于女性对被同性吸引的男性的信任的研究。在加拿大、萨摩亚和 Istmo Zapotec 进行了实验，随机分配女性来考虑由竞争对手女性或同性吸引男性进行的各种偷猎行为的可能性。在加拿大，女性比其他女性更信任顺性男同性恋。同样，萨摩亚妇女比其他妇女更信任fa'afafine。在 Istmo Zapotec 中，女性同样不信任女性和女性muxe gunaa，而更男性化的muxe nguiiu被认为比女性和muxe gunaa更值得信赖. 这些结果表明，女性对同性吸引男性的信任在文化背景之间和内部各不相同，这可能受到相关男性相对女性气质的影响。