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Title: Third gender in Pakistan
Post by: Allamakee on December 29, 2009, 04:10:05 PM
Post by: Allamakee on December 29, 2009, 04:10:05 PM
Third gender in Pakistan
The Bilerico Project
by Alex Blaze
December 29, 2009
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/third_gender_in_pakistan.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/third_gender_in_pakistan.php)
While in the West we would probably think of a person who is hijra as a transgender woman, they see themselves as a third gender. From anthropologist Gayatri Reddy's With Respect to Sex, based on her extensive fieldwork and interviews with hijra in India:
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While they may not identify as female, narratives on their construction of identity bear a strong resemblance to similar narratives from Western transgender women:
The Bilerico Project
by Alex Blaze
December 29, 2009
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/third_gender_in_pakistan.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/third_gender_in_pakistan.php)
While in the West we would probably think of a person who is hijra as a transgender woman, they see themselves as a third gender. From anthropologist Gayatri Reddy's With Respect to Sex, based on her extensive fieldwork and interviews with hijra in India:
<snip>
While they may not identify as female, narratives on their construction of identity bear a strong resemblance to similar narratives from Western transgender women: