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Meet Canada’s Two-Spirit Doctor Helping Trans Teens: WATCH

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Dr. James Makokis treats young transgender people and teaches them about being two-spirit – an umbrella term used by many indigenous LGBT people that harks back to pre-colonial third gender roles.

According to Openly News, “Makokis cried as he remembered his father struggling to accept him when he came out as gay at the age of 17. Speaking to about two dozen people, including transgender teenagers and their parents, Makokis explained how his uncles helped his father come to terms with his sexuality. ‘It was kind of difficult for him to, to understand that,’ his voice breaking as his husband Anthony Johnson comforted him in the soaring canvas structure in the garden of their home near Edmonton, capital city of Canada’s Alberta province.”

 

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