Third gender raises voice in Nepal
Posted on: 2010-05-28 10:27:27
SANJAY SHRESTHA
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/blog_index1.php?blogtab=2&blogid=3978&flag=1&title=VGhpcmQgZ2VuZGVyIHJhaXNlcyB2b2ljZSBpbiBOZXBhbA== (http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/blog_index1.php?blogtab=2&blogid=3978&flag=1&title=VGhpcmQgZ2VuZGVyIHJhaXNlcyB2b2ljZSBpbiBOZXBhbA==)
"I am the third sex, not a man trying to be a woman. It is your society's problem that you only recognize two sexes." Mona Ahmed expressed her plight in a book written by Dayanita Singh "Myself Mona Ahmed". Mona has sadly but daringly expressed that her being third sex is not her problem, indeed it's our society's problem as we have failed to explicitly give third sex a recognition and an appropriate place in our society and in our heart. It's really disappointing to find that we still have the same old discriminative eyes to look at them and make mockery of them. All children are born normal, except few anomalies. Right at the birth time they are categorized as male and female. But the mutation seen after few years caused by different hormones in the body leads to changes in gender.