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Possibly encyclopedic additional info:
- Douglas Monroy, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture (1990, →ISBN, page 15:
- Much like the Lakota and some other tribes, a Juaneño could be kwit. If for whatever reasons a male youth rejected what his culture considered masculine and opted for socially defined female proclivities, society did not reject him or his tendencies. Kroeber says that femininity and transvestism "were readily recognized and encouraged to manifest themselves as natural. Such 'women' were prized as robust workers, and often publicly married."
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (2010, →ISBN, page 200:
- The kwit of the neighboring Juaneño were also eagerly married in public because they were robust workers (Kroeber 1925: 647), although it is not known whether these marriages differed from those between partners of the opposite sex.