kwido
Tewa edit
Noun edit
kwido
- a person (of either sex) who belongs to a third gender or is transgender (historically regarded as having special spiritual power, and able to enter into relationships with cisgender men or women, or with other kwidos)
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References edit
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010): Tewa kwidos of both sexes had sexual relationships with women, men, and other kwidos (Jacobs 1983:460). This is unusual; women-men and men-women rarely entered into relationships of this kind with each other. […] [Two-spirits] were regarded as esteemed persons with special spiritual powers by the Arapaho, Assiniboine, […] Yuma, Tewa, and, at one time, also the Yuki.
- Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, Sabine Lang, Two-spirit People: Native American Gender Identity →ISBN, 1997)