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<p>Transgender isn’t a sexual orientation–it’s a gender identity.</p>
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<p>“Verifying” Native American status through tribal enrollment goes back to the use blood quantum to identify tribe members. FWIW, most Native Americans I know who talked about the issue really disliked the use of blood quantum, as it is often very high and discounts people who may have ancestry from more than one tribe (i.e., someone who is a “quarter” X tribe and a “quarter” Y tribe won’t qualify as being a member of either tribe if both of those tribes have a blood quantum of 50%) and people who are culturally part of a tribe but don’t meet the blood quantum requirement. It also discounts members of non-federally recognized tribes. Also, the rolls used to establish ancestry were often very incomplete.</p>