haxu'xan

Arapaho

Etymology

Sometimes said to mean "rotten bone"; compare hix (“bone”), netoxoneb (“my bone”), hitixoneb (“her or his bone”), and hooxuse' (“it (meat) is rotten”).

Noun

haxu'xan

1. male-bodied person who identifies and lives as a woman (and may marry a man)

See also

• two-spirit

References

• Alfred Kroeber, The Arapaho (1902): "They are called haxu'xan, which is thought to mean "rotten bone." The following accounts concerning them were obtained. The haxu'xana become so as the result of a (supernatural) gift from animals or birds.
• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)