Native American Two-Spirits Look to Reclaim Lost Heritage

Growing up, Timothy “Twix” Ward, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, thought he was “normal.” But his family recognized there was something “special” about him. “It wasn’t until I got older that I knew who I was, that I was different from everyone else,” he said. Ward identifies not as a man or a woman, but both — and neither: Twix Ward is a Two-Spirit. The term was first devised in Winnipeg, Canada, during a 1990 inter-tribal conference of Native American/First Nations...

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