Kay LeClaire, 28, made a name for herself in Wisconsin s Native community, becoming a resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and creating a queer Native artists collective.
Kay LeClaire identified themselves on Facebook as a white woman in July 2017. By 2019, they publicly identified as a Native American two-spirit, a term used to describe a non-binary gender identity.
Kay LeClaire, who also went by the name Nibiiwakamigkwe, and has claimed to be Native American is being accused of being a white woman by hobbyist genealogist AdvancedSmite.