Powerful portraits of India's hijras: How the country's transgender women who we

[stephaniec]

Powerful portraits of India's hijras: How the country's transgender women who were once worshiped now survive through begging and prostitution

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3395492/Powerful-portraits-India-s-hijras-country-s-transgender-women-worshiped-survive-begging-prostitution.html

The Daily Mail/By Phoebe Jackson-edwards For Mail Online

Published: 02:56 EST, 13 January 2016  | Updated: 03:17 EST, 13 January 2016

"A photographer who became fascinated by members of India's 'third gender', has captured a series of powerful portraits of the women traditionally seen as occupying a place between male and female.

Hijras, the term used for transgender and intersex women, were believed to bring good fortune but growing discrimination has now caused them to be marginalised.

Jill Peters, who splits her time between New York and Miami, came across a group of hijras in 2007 while on a trip to Delhi and was inspired to capture them for the photo series Nirvan: The Third Gender of India."

[Deborah]

The article states they were well off until India began adopting Western cultural ideas, probably beginning during the British colonial era.  It's  Christianity's gift to the Hijira.


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