TRANSSEXUALS, THE THIRD SEX, A NATURE'S MISTAKE?
vijayanths

http://vijayanths.blogspot.com/2008/03/transsexuals-third-sex-natures-mistake.html

It is really a big handicap to be born as a third sex human and grow into a transsexual. Who is a transsexual? A person who possesses both male organ and breasts but feels like a woman and in some instances a man.

What a big physical handicap? When they grow up and start showing feminine qualities they are often criticized by every one. It is miserable when their parents, relatives, and friends hate them and start to avoid them.

Though I appreciated the author's sympathy, he did step in it a few times. Hopefully my comment will give him some pause for thought without putting his back up.

That writer is a Hindu from India. Ancient Hindu tradition classifies all gender-variant people (including gays) as tritiya prakrti, which means 'third gender'. To be considered a man or a woman, you have to make babies heterosexually and conform to gender roles. The Hindu definitions of man and woman are much more restrictive, and frankly, patriarchal. You're not "really" a woman unless you make babies. That's why transsexual women are classified as "third gender."

No offense intended, but I am so glad I'm not Hindu. In America, I get to be a woman.

That writer is perpetuating clumsy stereotypes--fashion design? Come on! Physically handicapped? Wrong. Segregated schools just for trannies? Yeah so you don't have be bothered by seeing us. How about proposing leper colonies for us while you're at it? Jerk.