Two-Spirit Trans Butch Dyke...

I am really feeling empowered and strengthened. Granted, I crashed my Harley this a.m, but I am alive and bruised to tell about it.
I am feeling more secure in my two-spirit, more acknowledged...I am working with our new medical director at the hospital, Dr. Anthony Dekker, who is coming from the Indian Health Center in Arizona. He told me a story about two-spirits, and how they are acknowledged, encouraged and respected as to be "who they are" from the start (children). He is the first person I think that has just really been "ok" with me, just the way I am, without explanation or shame, or whatever. They treat more transgendered at the health clinic then anywhere else, because it is culturally acceptable. WOW! I am strengthened and delighted. I also do not feel so all alone, feeling Native on the inside and looking white on the outside (mixed blood). I think he is too. He is not put off by my blue eyes and white skin. I am Shoshone, Iroquois, French and Irish.
But, I do not hold a BIA number, as my great grandmother died in childbirth, and the children (2) were separated and handed off to different families to take care of. My last name is an adopted name of some farming family in Birch Run. They took in my grandfather (the birth child when she died), to help run the farm. Not alot of love in this family...in fact, an overwhelming amount of sexual, physical, verbal abuse and alcoholism.