Gurmah, Khunsa, or Hijra, reputedly intersex, Eastern Bengal. © British Library Board (Photo 12
Gurmah, Khunsa, or Hijra, reputedly intersex, Eastern Bengal. © British Library Board (Photo 124 (38)) The Hijra of South East Asia and India are “…a traditional community of people usually assigned male at birth who may or may not undergo castration and live as women or as a third gender. The hijra are distinct from the more modern, Western understanding of transsexual women. Their identities and status, changeable across time, have a considerably longer heritage, which is grounded in religious practice and spiritual belief”. -- source link
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