americanhuney:actually-a-lesbian:An LGBT facebook group posted about how Native Americans had 5 gend
americanhuney:actually-a-lesbian:An LGBT facebook group posted about how Native Americans had 5 genders, and this was a good response, along with a a few people saying Native Americans weren’t one group and the cultures vary.As another Mi'kmaq person, this is true and it’s something that many of us argue about within our communities.Two spirit wasn’t even an original term in our tribe, and as far as I know there is no word for being two spirit in our language. Two spirit refers to gay people, and people who take on the roles of other genders. Mostly men who take on women’s roles.But we really didn’t consider them a third gender, and they didn’t want to be considered that way. I absolutely loathe that article going around that states NA’s believed in 5 genders because it’s not true and it paints the narrative that we all believe the same things. We don’t. -- source link
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