ᓯᐱᓂᖅ
Inuktitut
Noun
ᓯᐱᓂᖅ (Latin sipiniq, plural ᓯᐱᓃᑦ)
- intersex person, person born with ambiguous genitalia, person with genitalia which (in the Inuit belief) changed at birth
- person raised in a gender that does not match their birth sex (i.e. a female-bodied person raised as a male, or a male-bodied person raised as a female)
References
- Pamela R Stern, Daily Life of the Inuit (2010, ISBN 0313363129 and Historical Dictionary of the Inuit (2013, ISBN 0810879123
- Rose Dufour (1975)