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WHAT IS TWO SPIRIT?
Two-spirit people are Native Americans who identify as possessing both the female and male genders within them. A lot of people classify two-spirit as LGBTQ Natives, or others may just use the term to describe any person from the LGBTQ community. But the truth is that it refers to a certain community of people.
The term two-spirit is different depending on the nation. Different nations have different names to refer to people of the two-spirit community. In the Ojibwe community
Ikwekaazo- men who act like "women"
Ininiikaazo- women who act like "men"
It's not LGBTQ+. They're two-spirit.
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