In many traditions, two-spirit people served their community as mediators, social workers, crafts-people, name-givers, shaman and/or medicine givers—roles only a two-spirit person could fulfill. That's why they were viewed as another gender.”

Measuring any form of social change is a challenge... Throw race into the mix and it’s not hard to see why less progress has been made in evaluating racial justice work than in some other important and related evaluation issues.”