• mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I too am curious about this term “2 spirits”. From the above explanation and the term itself, I assume it means the person pretty much has a male and female component, thus “2 spirits”. Sounds like gender fluid or non-binary to me but I’m not an expert on the differences.

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      1 year ago

      Two spirit in a Canadian Indigenous context refers to people who identify as having two spirits inside of them. They have the spirits of both a man and a woman, so in terms outside Indigenous culture I think the most related term would be non-binary.