hwame

hwame

1. a female-bodied person who lives as a man

• alyha
• two-spirit

• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)
• Leila J. Rupp, Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women →ISBN, 2009)
• Andrew P. Lyons, Harriet Lyons, Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality →ISBN, 2004)
• Serena Nanda, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations (1999, →ISBN, page 24: In addition to occupation, female gender variants might assume other characteristics of men. [...] Mohave hwame were tattooed like men instead of women.