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I read the entire fucking wiki page and still don't know. So I am assuming it's queer Native Americans that want to be special.
Excuse you? Get the hell out of here with that shit thanks.
Thanks for helping me understand and become a better person by not being ignorant and insensitive. /s
It isn't bi, it is an Indigenous term meaning they are both masculine and feminine. The closest we have otherwise is non-binary or gender-fluid. But in Indigenous communities (at least historically, I'm not overly familiar with how 2-spirit people are treated currently) they were a part of the spiritual leadership of those communities.
I wish someone intimately familiar with 2-spirit could come here and explain it to everyone, especially me because I'm dumb.