Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu,[1] (born May 15, 1972[2]) also known as Kumu Hina, is a Native Hawaiian māhū – a traditional third gender person who occupies "a place in the middle" between male and female,[3][4][5][6] as well as a modern transgender woman.

[13] Wong-Kalu is a founder of the Kulia Na Mamo transgender health project and cultural director of a Hawaiian public charter school.

[20] Wong-Kalu, along with filmmaker Dean Hammer and director Joe Wilson, produced the short film, Lady Eva[21] and feature documentary Leitis in Waiting about the struggle of the indigenous transgender community in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga.

In 2020, Wong-Kalu directed, produced and narrated Kapaemahu,[24] an animated short film based on the Hawaiian story of four legendary māhū who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i and imbued their powers on giant boulders that still stand on Waikiki Beach after the introduction of the U.S. government and tourism.

[30] Wong-Kalu is also featured in Naomi Hirahara's 2022 anthology We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States that was published by the Smithsonian Institution and Running Press Kids.