elxa'

Yuma

Noun

elxa'

1. male-bodied transgender person; male-bodied person who presents as 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] […]