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Bookmark or Share- The Third Gender and Hijras | Religion and Public Life at Harvard ...In 2014, it was estimated that around 3 million third gender people live in India alone. While the third gender includes a few different groups in South Asia, the most common are the hijras. Hijras are often born male but look and dress in traditionally feminine ways.
- Hijrah | History, Definition, & Importance | BritannicaHejira or Hijra. Latin: Hegira. Date: 622. Location: Mecca. Medina. Participants: Muhammad. Context: Islamic calendar. Julian calendar. Qurʾān. Hijrah, the Prophet Muhammad ’s migration (622 ce) from Mecca to Yathrib ( Medina) upon invitation in order to escape persecution.
- The Peculiar Position of India’s Third Gender - The New York TimesIndia’s Third Gender. Hijras occupy a special place in Hinduism. But their relationship to modern Mumbai, where transgender people are legally recognized, remains fraught. Radhika’s ...
- A Journey Of Pain And Beauty: On Becoming Transgender In India - NPRAbhina Aher was born a boy biologically and is now a hijra, a member of an ancient transgender community in India. Of her painful physical and psychological transformation, Aher remembers now: "I...
- The semi-sacred ‘third gender’ of South Asia - BBCHeena, 51, is a hijra: a term, according to Bangladeshi photographer Shahria Sharmin, that has “no exact match in the modern western taxonomy of gender”. Shahria Sharmin. Heena (51): “I feel like...
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