elxa'
Yuma
Noun
elxa'
- male-bodied transgender person; male-bodied person who dresses and lives like a woman
See also
- kwe'rhame (“female-bodied transgender person”)
- two-spirit
References
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender (2010, →ISBN
- Histories of Anthropology Annual, volume 5 (2009), page 25: That the alyha simulated menstruation and pregnancy were reported in the dissertation; Drucker (1937:27) alludes to an initiation rite for Quechan elxa, a transgendered role for natal males in another (Yuman language family) Southern [people] […]