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Are you familiar with the term "Two spirit" gender identity in Native American culture?

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revenant · F
There is a Navajo elderly guy on youtube who would disagree with you.
LordShadowfire · 100+, M
@revenant Wow, congratulations. You found one Native American who disagrees. I guess that means it's all bullshit.
revenant · F
@LordShadowfire do you know any other ?
LordShadowfire · 100+, M
@revenant Doesn't matter. You can't just point to one guy you found on YouTube and claim he represents literally all Native Americans.

I mean, you can, but it'd be kind of racist.
val70 · 51-55
@revenant Take heart that they once burned books. It didn't get them far
CestManan · 46-50, F
@LordShadowfire that's Navajo guy comes from a special tribe that treats women badly. It is called a slap a hoe tribe
Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F
@CestManan The tribes were forced converted to Christianity, so they were forced to confirm to traditional so called gender roles.
CestManan · 46-50, F
@Peaceandnamaste I think most people are tired of walking on eggshells for these so-called christians. Christians are one of the biggest groups of azzholes to ever disgrace the planet
LordShadowfire · 100+, M
@CestManan I was literally approached by security once because I was holding a meeting of my teaching coven in the food court at Lloyd Center Mall, and we were scaring a group of customers, whom the security guard wouldn't name. I think we can all guess who they were. I know for a fact a Bible study group would have been left alone.
CestManan · 46-50, F
@LordShadowfire you could have told the security guard, we weren't planning on sacrificing that many people!
val70 · 51-55
@Peaceandnamaste Alright, so one can conclude that your views are different to that on wiki for example at this moment : "Two Spirit" was not intended to be interchangeable with "LGBT Native American" or "Gay Indian"; rather, it was created in English (and then translated into Ojibwe), to serve as a pan-Indian unifier: to be used for general audiences instead of the traditional terms in Indigenous languages for what are diverse, culturally-specific ceremonial and social roles, that can vary widely (if and when they exist at all) ("A Spirit of Belonging, Inside and Out". The New York Times. 8 Oct 2006. Retrieved 28 July 2016). Just wondering when something from the past is something completely the same as something really first used in 1990. Thank you :-)
revenant · F
@val70 well said.
From what I learnt Natives always thought that the soul had no gender anyway but at the time of reincarnation it had to choose either one of the genders for most people.