That writer is a Hindu from India. Ancient Hindu tradition classifies all gender-variant people (including gays) as
tritiya prakrti, which means 'third gender'. To be considered a man or a woman, you have to make babies heterosexually and conform to gender roles. The Hindu definitions of man and woman are much more restrictive, and frankly, patriarchal. You're not "really" a woman unless you make babies. That's why transsexual women are classified as "third gender."
No offense intended, but I am
so glad I'm not Hindu. In America, I get to be a woman.
That writer is perpetuating clumsy stereotypes--fashion design? Come on! Physically handicapped? Wrong. Segregated schools just for ->-bleeped-<-s? Yeah so you don't have be bothered by seeing us. How about proposing leper colonies for us while you're at it? Jerk.