So, Annie says 'No, berdache is not transgender, either.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CHRIS KASH-KASH] Reference

Until recently I would have used the generic anthropological term berdache - but I recently found out that it is considered disrespectful by most Native Americans - and I am truly sorry for my use of this word in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Paine's Corner] Reference

Two-spirited ones (formerly known as berdache) were commonly found in many Amerindian cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Ryan: The Prehistory of Prop 8] Reference

A male warrior could marry a berdache, which is a male that takes on the roles and positions of a female.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Most Native American tribes formally recognize -- and honor -- human homosexuality and transgender in the role of the 'two-spirit' person (sometimes formerly known as berdache).    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

The tribe watched what he took with him as he ran out, and if it was the basketry materials they reconciled themselves to his being a 'berdache'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

The term "berdache" is considered by most in the culture to be insulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The Navajo have a category of person they call a berdache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

"You are my father, who was always kind to me," said the berdache.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

Of course, that would require one to not count berdache marriages.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Future « Lean Left] Reference

The berdache hugged himself and shivered, though the air was still mild.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

What a berdache is, basically, is someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

"Father," said the berdache, "I think we need you more to make medicine against fresh misfortune.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

A lot of Native Americans who identify with the third gender prefer to be called two-spirit, not berdache.    From Wordnik.com.  [RAMBLINGS ABOUT THE MISS NAVAJO PAGEANT » Sociological Images] Reference

And, older than the union, the concept of same-sex or berdache marriage was common over large parts of what is now the US.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto] Reference

His face was barely visible, webbed and gullied with encroaching age, full of the concern that a berdache need not be ashamed to show.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

And even though berdache seems to mostly be opposite-gender, same-sex pairings, even that has been not very strict, especially wen you start involving travestis.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Future « Lean Left] Reference

In the doorway, Rain At Evening, who had been born the same winter as the berdache, helped a daughter of her own, Dawn Mist, ornament a dress with dyed quills for the maiden's forthcoming marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

Consider, for instance, the well-documentedand widespread instances of winkte, berdache and two-spirit people in Native American culture, compared to the deep-seated fear of these concepts in western traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 September 05 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference

As is well known, many Native groups had a more fluid, or at least expansive, idea of gender than the current mainstream binary of male/female; many groups had a “third gender,” often referred to as berdache.    From Wordnik.com.  [RAMBLINGS ABOUT THE MISS NAVAJO PAGEANT » Sociological Images] Reference

On the North American continent there were berdache marriages, and examples of same-sex marriage occur in other cultures world-wide. cite Note that this does not, to my mind, constitute an argument for same-sex marriage in US or anywhere else, any more than the absence of any previous examples of same-sex marriage would constitute an argument against same-sex marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto] Reference

Male, Female, and berdache (men who took on female roles).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Describe to him something like berdache and ask him if it’s a kind of marriage, he might say yes.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Future « Lean Left] Reference

Getting this out of the way first And, older than the union, the concept of same-sex or berdache marriage was common over large parts of what is now the US.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto] Reference

To imply that all Native American tribes are accepting of the GLBT community both greatly simplifies the role of the berdache which didn’t exist in every tribe and assumes that tribes have not been affected by homophobic trends in the larger American society of which they are also a part.    From Wordnik.com.  [RAMBLINGS ABOUT THE MISS NAVAJO PAGEANT » Sociological Images] Reference

While this is interestingand makes it clear that our current gender system is just one way of thinking about gender, I find discussions of berdache often devolve into simplified “American culture is oppressive andhomophobic, while Native tribes allowed people to just be who they are and didn’t confine or stereotype people based on gender rules.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [RAMBLINGS ABOUT THE MISS NAVAJO PAGEANT » Sociological Images] Reference

She wanted to know if I was a berdache.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CHRIS KASH-KASH] Reference

The berdache rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

'berdache'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

See "berdache" and "transgender.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference