The Khmer language recognizes male (ប្រុស, "pros") and female (ស្រី, "srey") as the dominant genders, but also includes term "kteuy" (ខ្ទើយ; equivalent to the Thai "kathoey") for a third gender intermediate between the other two: it describes a person who has the external physical characteristics of either "pros" or "srey" but behaves in a manner appropriate to the other. As in Thailand, the term "kathoey" now refers almost exclusively to the physiologically masculine pair of this term – i.e., physical males who have a female identity, most often expressed in cross-dressing.