Confusion over gender is not incurable: Study

[Shana A]

Confusion over gender is not incurable: Study
Menaka Rao, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, December 04, 2011
First Published: 01:17 IST(4/12/2011)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Confusion-over-gender-is-not-incurable-Study/Article1-777671.aspx

Seventeen-year-old Murtaza (name changed) used to rob his sister's underwear and wear them. He would often slip on his mother's high-heeled sandals and walkabout in the house. When his neighbours told his uncles that they had seen him dancing "like a girl" when he was alone at home, Murtaza was beaten up.

Last week, his mother took him to Sion hospital to get him treated for his 'abnormality'. "His mother asked us if there is any scope for sudhar (improvement). The boy told us that he was bigda hua (had a problem)," said Dr Gurvinder Kalra, assistant professor at Sion hospital's psychiatry department.

Dr Kalra found that Murtaza was suffering from a gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria. This is a psychiatric condition involving a conflict between a person's actual physical gender and the gender that person identifies himself or herself as. Most of the hijras or eunuchs, who physically are boys, identify themselves to be girls.

[apple pie]

The person can get a sex-reassessment surgery

I know it's probably just a typo but hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[fleshpull]

Maybe sex reassessment surgery means that if they start to cut and you scream "no stop!" you don't have GID.

[lilacwoman]

This hijrah third gender nonsense really annoys me.
Hijrahs are TS though due to poverty and transphobia many don't or can't get any sort of therapy and as they get turned out of the family home they naturallly gravitate to the nearest hijrah community house where they either work as street singers, beggars or prostitutes providing anal sex for India's closetted homosexuals and bisexuals.
In the hijrah house there will be some young and lovely and some older and more male looking just like on Susans.

In a BBC documentarya few years ago a young British Indian woman went to India to investigate the hijrahs living in a hijrah house but even though she saw males entering and being led away by the hijrahs she was unable to make the connection between hijra and homosexuality as homosexuality in India is so shameful that it is never mentioned and also many homosexual men will marry a woman to satisfy the family demands to have children.

A common saying throughout the Muslim world is girls for babies and boys for fun.

just surfed for gay bars in Mumbai and got this: white trousers and red shirts!
http://www.indiamike.com/india/mumbai-bombay-f22/is-there-a-gay-mumbai-t11151/

[Sweet Blue Girl]

This hijrah third gender nonsense really annoys me.
Hijrahs are TS though due to poverty and transphobia many don't or can't get any sort of therapy and as they get turned out of the family home they naturallly gravitate to the nearest hijrah community house where they either work as street singers, beggars or prostitutes providing anal sex for India's closetted homosexuals and bisexuals.
In the hijrah house there will be some young and lovely and some older and more male looking just like on Susans.

In a BBC documentarya few years ago a young British Indian woman went to India to investigate the hijrahs living in a hijrah house but even though she saw males entering and being led away by the hijrahs she was unable to make the connection between hijra and homosexuality as homosexuality in India is so shameful that it is never mentioned and also many homosexual men will marry a woman to satisfy the family demands to have children.

A common saying throughout the Muslim world is girls for babies and boys for fun.

just surfed for gay bars in Mumbai and got this: white trousers and red shirts!
http://www.indiamike.com/india/mumbai-bombay-f22/is-there-a-gay-mumbai-t11151/

Thanks
Didn't know hjra had such a terrible life.
I thought they were someway recognized not officially segregated!

[AbraCadabra]

Maybe sex reassessment surgery means that if they start to cut and you scream "no stop!" you don't have GID.

Well, before the knife cometh the anaesthetic - no screaming then. You better get sorted before hand - and your therapist will surely tell you just that pretty well up front (I should hope :-)

Axélle

[lilacwoman]

Hijrah are getting some legal recognition this last year or two but the caste system still operates and hijrah are at the bottom of the heap with the other untouchables.   

According to some on Susans a life as a woman providing the sexual needs of men who can't publicly be gay isn't all that bad.

Accounts are that the customers treat the women nicely as the hijrah house usually has older TS still male bodied through lack of hormones who are quite willing and ready to swing a machete at anyone who tries abusing one of the working women.

[lilacwoman]

Incidentally the main requirement for acceptance into a hijrah house is said to be a willingness to lose the male bits so the doctor's quote 'physically they are boys' only applies until the time the deepsleep drink has worked and the older hijrah approaches with the sharp knife.

Hijrah accounts do show they fall in love with their custormers or other men but cannot usually live openly with them due to the homophobia - hypocrisy? of the Indian culture.

[Bishounen]

Well, although many Hijras are transsexuals, all of them are not. Some may be Intersexuals, transvestites or even ordinary Cis-males(Either heterosexual or homosexual) that was abducted at a young age by other Hijras that then performed a forced penectomy on him, afterwards teaching him up like a girl.

Hijras are different individuals aswell jusr as other people and just as many of them are good, some of them may also be not so good at all, such as those abducting boys to emasculate them so they can make more money for their abductors.