The Inuit have a unique naming practice that blurs the lines between genders.

Traditionally, a child would be named after someone who is deceased. When that child is named, they take on the "soul" of the deceased person, taking on their title and also their gender. This could mean that a biologically male child would be raised as female (or vice versa), being trained and referred to as the social gender and not the biological gender. It also could mean that the parents of that child would refer to that child as, say, "grandmother" or whatever title the deceased person had. In some instances, a child may have many names of loved ones that have passed and would be dressed as one gender one day and the other gender the next. This generally ended at the time of menstruation for girls or after a boy killed his first game.

Du fœtus au chamane: la construction d'un « troisième sexe » inuit Bernard Saladin d'Anglure