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Two Spirits
FRED MARTINEZ WAS A NAVAJO BOY WHO WAS ALSO A GIRL. IN AN EARLIER ERA, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN REVERED. INSTEAD, HE WAS MURDERED.
Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit', who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits.
