In the Philippines, a baklâ (pronounced [bɐkˈlaʔ]), bayot (Cebuano) or agî (Hiligaynon) is a person who was assigned male at birth and has adopted a feminine gender expression. They are often considered a third gender. Many bakla are exclusively attracted to men, but are not necessarily gay. The polar opposite of the term in Philippine culture is tomboy (natively the or binalaki), which refers to women with a masculine gender expression (usually, but not always, lesbian). The term is sometimes incorrectly applied to trans women.