The case of the third gender

[Butterfly]

The case of the third gender
The Express Tribune
by Dr Meher Zaidi
Wednesday, 23 June 2010


http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/200/the-case-of-the-third-gender/


The incidence of the third gender or transgender is not known in Pakistan. An estimate of transgender persons in India is around 1:400. Pakistan being in the same ethno-geographical class may have parallel results. The discriminatory attitude is even shown in statistical divisions as reported in population reports, 51% females and 49% males. As if the transgender persons do not exist.

According to Madeline H Wyndzen, PhD, a transgendered professor of psychology, "there is similarity in expressed insensitivity to this issue both in psychopathology and the lay man's attitude. It comes in the form of value judgments as the assumption that ->-bleeped-<- is a problem and in a "paternal" way of assuming they know what's best for us."