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Title: Hijras: The aliens of the Pakistani society
Post by: Natasha on February 29, 2008, 06:09:42 PM
Hijras: The aliens of the Pakistani society

http://www.eglamsham.com/eunuchs001.htm
02/29/2008

'They are also termed as Khawajasara, Nirvan or Nirban and zanana in the subcontinent while hermaphrodites, transvestites, eunuchs and homosexuals in western communities. But if we ask the hijrra community about their identity they say: "It's all Allah's will that we have a soul of a women and body of a man, we are simply Khusras."