Nádleehi
Diné (Navajo) gender role / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nádleehi is a social and, at times, ceremonial role in Diné (Navajo) culture[1] – an "effeminate male" or "male-bodied person with a feminine nature".[2][3] However, the nádleehi gender role is also fluid and cannot be simply described in terms of rigid gender binaries.[2] Some Diné people recognize four general places on the gender spectrum: feminine woman, masculine woman, feminine man, and masculine man.[2] Nádleehí may express their gender differently from day to day, or during different periods over their lifetimes, fulfilling roles in community and ceremony traditionally held by either women or men. At times, some may hold positions that can only be held by people who are near the middle of the gender spectrum.[1] Contemporary nádleehí may or may not participate in the modern, pan-Indian two-spirit or LGBT communities. Notable people who were recognized by their communities as nádleehí are traditional weaver and ceremonial singer Hosteen Klah (1867–1937) and Fred Martinez, who was murdered at the age of 16 in June 2001.[3]