On Spiritual Genders
On Spiritual Genders
In 1990, native american members of the LGBT settled on the term “Two-Spirit”, as an umbrella term for nonbinary identities that exist as…
Spiritual Genders? That's hogwash, it doesn't exist, it's propaganda, Man, Woman, that's it, the two genders, the universal binary. *Mic drop*
Parts of this article are hard to follow, but it's an interesting take that I haven't heard before.
Also...I had no idea that the term two spirit was that recent. You learn something new every day.
It makes sense when you realise that two-spirit isn't what two-spirit people call themselves at home. In their own tribe's cultural context, everybody knows the specific name for their gender and what it culturally means. Two-spirit was invented on purpose as a shorthand for describing dozens or hundreds of different things in a language people outside that one single tribe can all understand. It's as manufactured and as broad as the sequence of letters "LGBT", an umbrella term that arose during a specific cultural moment as part of a push for equality.