elxa'
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Yuma
[edit]Noun
[edit]elxa'
- amab (assigned male at birth) transgender person; amab person who feels and presents like a woman
See also
[edit]- kwe'rhame (“female-bodied transgender person”)
- two-spirit
References
[edit]- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender (2010), →ISBN
- Histories of Anthropology Annual, volume 5 (2009), page 25: That the alyha simulated menstruation and pregnancy were reported in the dissertation; Drucker (1937:27) alludes to an initiation rite for Quechan elxa, a transgendered role for natal males in another (Yuman language family) Southern [people] […]