Berdache - What does it mean?
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(anthropology) Among Native Americans, a person who identifies with any of a variety of gender identities which are not exclusively those of their biological sex; a transgender person.
* 2005 , Michael J Horswell, Decolonizing the Sodomite , University of Texas 2006, page 20:
berdache
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Male berdache have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache (females who take on the lifeways of males) appear in half as many groups.