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idk what shit-eating truscum needs to hear this, but your rhetoric directly harms people with culturally-specific genders. i’m native and two-spirit, that label describes my gender and my attraction. i use they/them pronouns and your “nonbinaries and cringey stargender trenders aren’t valid” bullshit is getting old. our languages were demonized and erased, our gender and attraction labels along with them. my experiences with dysphoria exist because of colonialist ideas of gender. we have been forced into arbitrary ‘male’ and ‘female’ categories by colonizers for centuries and truscum rhetoric perpetuates racist colonialist violence against natives.
your experiences are not universal, you’re not forwarding justice for trans people, and you’re definitely not an ally to natives or other people of color. you’re just a fucking colonizer.
Hey y'all!!!! Another name change lol, I am no longer going by Skadi, and now I'm going by "C". I have been doing a lot of self-discovery, reflection, and reconnection to my indigenous heritage and culture, and I have discovered that I strongly identify with being 2-Spirited.
For those of you who don't know what this means, that's okay!
'2 Spirit' refers to an indigenous individual that has two souls, typically 1 male and 1 female, although it varies from person to person and tribe to tribe. The original words for this identity has been lost because of colonization and loss of records (both physical and oral), and the term was coined in the 90's.
2 Spirit individual traditionally had special roles in tribal affairs, were taught both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine crafts such as hunting, beadwork, sewing, tools crafting, etc.
However, this term does not mean the same thing as nonbinary, bigender, or a lot of the other LGBT terms that are popular, as it holds a lot more cultural and personal significance to indigenous people.
So long story short: I'm a guy, I'm a girl, I'm neither, I'm both, I'm indigenous.
My pronouns are they/he/she
Thank you :)))