ᓯᐱᓂᖅ

Inuktitut

Noun

ᓯᐱᓂᖅ (sipiniq) (plural ᓯᐱᓂᐃᑦ, Latin sipiniq)

  1. intersex person, person born with ambiguous genitalia, person with genitalia which (in the Inuit belief) changed at birth
  2. person raised in a gender that does not match their birth sex (i.e. a female-bodied person raised as a male, or a male-bodied person raised as a female)

References

  • Pamela R Stern, Daily Life of the Inuit (2010, →ISBN and Historical Dictionary of the Inuit (2013, →ISBN
  • Rose Dufour (1975)
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