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Tewa
Noun
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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- 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. 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)