Nepal: one nation, a hundred languages, three genders

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Nepal: one nation, a hundred languages, three genders
Written by By David Gestoso   

http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/-featurearchive/4531-nepal-one-nation-a-hundred-languages-three-genders.html

Could you ever imagine being a prisoner of your own body and mind? What would you do, if at birth, you were assigned a body that didn't match with your true gender? What would you do to come to terms with it? And, how would you deal with all these issues while society unjustly punished you for it?

Such was the dilemma of Sandhya Tamang. On the surface, she is a perfectly normal, happy 21 year-old girl, however, it hasn't always been this way.

Born in Hetauda, Makawampur, as a boy, Sandhya spent the best part of her childhood in her village as an unhappy, repressed and lonely child, trapped in a body that didn't match her gender.