Nineteenth-Century Explorers and Missionaries Described Native Americans Who Were Neither

question 78

Multiple Choice

Nineteenth-century explorers and missionaries described Native Americans who were neither male nor female, but somehow both. What did they call them?

• A) transsexuals
• B) berdaches
• C) transvestites
• D) queers
• E) homosexuals

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