reassignment, fa-afine, mahu, kathoey, xanith, hijara, hsiang ku, berdache & the faecal child
– etching by de Bry, “Balboa’s Dogs Attacking a Group of Panamanian Sodomites”
Being a berdache – that is, a man who behaved much like a woman, or occasionally a woman who behaved like a man, in a Native American tribe – was not soft option. As well as customarily providing non-