berdachism
nounEtymology From berdache + -ism.
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Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences Offensive The state or practice of being transgender or third gender in a Native American society.
- English settlers, in turn, solidly repressed berdachism in North America, although a score of nineteenth-century texts reveal a lack of sexual assimilation.2000, John W. M. Hallock, The American Byron, page 19:
- Related terms
- two-spirit