Yes, they honor "two-spirits" in the Cherokee tribe (I'm distantly related to Cherokee through my mom). My daughter recently became part-time shaman for one of her tribe groups, and joins both men's and women's ceremonies since she identifies with both.

When I return to live near her in Lexington, KY, I might join a local tribe group, but I doubt I'd be a shaman. I played that role for most of my life because I, and my mom and sister, were born highly psychic.

People knew, all my friends knew that they could ask me anything and I'd somehow know the answer, we used ESP to communicate in Haiti, since we MKs didn't have phones, and I never wore a watch but always knew the exact time. If someone had trouble with a pet they'd ask me to think to the animals and ask what was wrong and what to do, and I could.

My daughter uses this power to ask the race horses who will win at the track, but I don't know how they know, unless the races are fixed, or something. But she always wins, although she sets a winnings limit so as not to rip off Keeneland Race Track.

I thought so too, until I realized I was gender fluid. I had no choice but to see the difference when in the opposite gender modes.

As a male, I only wanted to build my latest ideas for inventions, hang out at my favorite bar and girl watch (without lust, but just appreciation for beauty, since I'm demisexual), crack jokes, scratch my (nonexistent) b-lls in the morning, hang with my male friends talking politics.
This side loved violent action movies with plenty of car chases and crashes.

I thought all chicks, of every age, were hot. I also was obedient to them when they ordered me around, so I had to keep my distance to defend keep my male side from being taken advantage of by the lady teachers, who kept asking me to do favors for them.

The male side of me usually took over when I was driving my motorbike..which is a good thing for driving in Thailand! I also strode along boldly, with stiff, brisk strides, and if any male tried to ogle me, I'd immediately, and automatically, meet his glance with an intimidating glare. I tended to become belligerent if a male dissed me by implying I was a sissy.

But I let females do and say whatever they wanted, opened doors for them, bought them things, didn't take anything they said to me seriously, tried to take care of them by walking on the street side, etc.

My female side was the side that was the bird photographer, was fussy, critical, always second-guessing, tended to become discouraged and depressed about my progress in any given effort. This side of me maintained a strict diet, watched chick flicks and emotional movies, was VERY picky about men who wanted to date me. They had to have certain education levels and income to even be considered.

Before I discovered the derris scandens I used certain tricks to jump me back into female mode. For instance, while camping at the Mu Ko Similan national marine park, Thailand, when I discovered that my male side was attracting giggling chicks in bikinis, and my female side didn't want to pay hard-earned money for their drinks, I just thought about going birding, and that reverted me instantly back to the female side, so I could then make an excuse and disappear.

Everyone is on a gender spectrum-there are no "pure" males or females.

The Asians know that everyone is a blend of female and male energies, as in "yin and yang." In Thailand, people tend to be very mixed gender..females usually have slender 10 year old boy figures until their thirties, men are often slender and graceful until 40 yrs old.

@birdingnut I used to live in Asia, so I know what you're saying.

As far as not understanding do to not having experience, that's just conformation bias. This should b looked at objectively. Also I wanted to throw out that your male side(at last in my experience) was more interested in stereotypes of men than real male behaviors.

@PaulRecomStop LOL! Funny how people think they know what others are experiencing. Mansplaining.
Oh, well, I do it also. I can be as rude and overbearing as many American males.

I was always like a male. My family and friends treated me as a default male when I was growing up. I was just like my brothers..pushy, rude, thought girls were stupid, taunted my male playmates and called them "girls" if they couldn't keep up with me or were afraid at how high we climbed in a mango tree.

I didn't know anything about gender issues. My mom called me a "tomboy" and accepted me, because she was similar in that aspect.

But when I hit puberty, I had trouble. When my body started changing I was struck with horror. I prayed frantically for God to make my legs straight and beautiful again, instead of getting all those fat lumps on them.

I went on to fumble through playing female, even got married and had two kids, but acted more like a "dad" than a mom, in my being the playful, rough-and-tumble one who taught them to climb trees, ride horses, skip stones on the pond, ice skate, etc.

My daughter is just like me..she considers herself a nonbinary androgyne, and is slightly transmale, but some days she says that, but other days denies she ever said it.

@birdingnut you kind of just ignored everything I said in an effort to bee insulting. You forgot a period of your life..... daily. That is a problem. I would love for you to show me any doctor that says it's no big deal to randomly forget periods of your life. Call it man splaining or call it wat it is, mentally ill.

@birdingnut and as far as knowing what you experienced, I surmised what you said, so unless your own account of your experience can't be trusted I'm not sure what your talking about. Once again your opinion is just that, your account of your experience is much more important and significantly more rare I would think (ie I wouldn't think most people regularly forgot parts of their life)

If the western medical community was interested in natural remedies, like derris scandens, that they can't synthesize and patent for a huge price, they wouldn't be blocking cannabis oil, natural cancer cures, etc.

If you have faith in them, you are an optimistic person who probably is making a killing in the stock market right now.

@birdingnut I just wish you could address the conversation, but it doesn't seem like your interested in that. Had a good one.

You can order bottles of capsules of derris scandens from both amazon and e-bay. But I can't guarantee my results for someone who has different hormone balance issues than I have, etc.

I have no idea how it fixes the gender fluid issues, and don't know if it will help a different gender identity issue.

But, at least the the medical reviews I read online said they'd been tested for long-term use for pain management, and there were no side effects, so you could try them. If nothing else, they're always going to be good muscle relaxers.

Also, when I was taking the pills by the handful for severe back pain, I found that six capsules put me into a sort of cannabis-like "zen"-like state where time seemed to stand still, and I knew that all energy was connected. I couldn't get angry with anyone because we were all one.