The difference between Sworn virgin and Two-spirit

When used as nouns, sworn virgin means a person, born a woman, who adopts a traditional masculine third-gender or transmasculine role in the balkans, wearing masculine clothing and performing masculine tasks, and traditionally swearing a vow of chastity, whereas two-spirit means a native (north) american gender-variant, homosexual or bisexual person (especially one belonging to a traditional tribal third-gender, fourth-gender or transgender cultural category that has a ceremonial role).


Two-spirit is also adjective with the meaning: pertaining to or being a two-spirit.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sworn virgin and Two-spirit

  1. Sworn virgin as a noun:

    A person, born a woman, who adopts a traditional masculine third-gender or transmasculine role in the Balkans, wearing masculine clothing and performing masculine tasks, and traditionally swearing a vow of chastity.

  2. Sworn virgin as a noun:

  1. Two-spirit as a noun:

    A Native (North) American gender-variant, homosexual or bisexual person (especially one belonging to a traditional tribal third-gender, fourth-gender or transgender cultural category that has a ceremonial role).

  1. Two-spirit as an adjective:

    Pertaining to or being a two-spirit.

  1. Two-spirit as an adjective (theology):

    Involving two spirits; especially, pertaining to the doctrine of dualism espoused in the so-called Treatise on the Two Spirits in the Dead Sea Scrolls.