India's 'third sex'

[Shana A]

India's 'third sex'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/05/100505_outlook_hijra.shtml

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is one of the highest profile members of India's so-called 'third sex' community - a transgender section of Indian society also known as 'hijras'.

This flamboyant 31-year-old classes herself as neither man nor woman, despite being born male.

She makes a living running dance academies, but has also spoken at the United Nations and has addressed conferences around the world on the rights of Indian 'hijras'.