Translations:Gender-variant identities worldwide/144/en
- Name of identity: 'yan daudu (plural), dan daudu (singular)[1] 'Yan daudu "means 'sons of Daudu,' a fun-loving, gambling spirit worshipped in the Muslim Bori practice, whose trance and dancing rituals are traditionally associated with marginalised poor women, sex workers and disabled people."[2]
- Culture: Hausa people of sub-Saharan Africa
- Era:
- Description of sex/gender: AMAB and feminine. The 'yan daudu "are categorized as neither male nor female but as an ambiguous middle category."[3]
- Role in society:
- ↑ "Introducing 'Yan Daudu" (PDF).
- ↑ Mark, Monica (10 June 2013). "Nigeria's yan daudu face persecution in religious revival". the Guardian. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ↑ Salamone, Frank A. (January 2007). "Hausa concepts of masculinity and the 'Yan Daudu". Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. 1 (1).