01771nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100002700060245006000087260003900147300003000186520123400216773003901450906001201489942000701501952010501508  c524710d524710240115b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGandotra, Hema 948012  aThe socially excluded third gender: A legal perspective  aKashmir Journal of Legal Studies    a10(1), Jul, 2023: p.29-42  aOn the streets of Indian villages one sometimes comes across an unusual sight of a group of closely shaven persons in female attire, singing and dancing, making overtures to the onlookers, cracking sexually charged jokes at men and making loud clapping sounds with their hands. To people these individuals may look very interesting and outlandish freaks of nature. Not because they sing and dance but because of their ambivalent physical appearance. They shave, smoke and talk like men but dress and behave in a more feminine way. On seeing them, one question which would immediately strike relates to who are these people, male or female? And if they are neither males nor females, then what? In the Indian society these peoples are popularly referred to as ‘Hijras’, ‘Khusras’, ‘Asexuals’, ‘Neutrals’, ‘Eunuchs’, etc. All the terms included in the nomenclature are used to describe the identity of these people who have one thing in common and perhaps the most decisive one that there is something wrong with their sexual organs. So one can say that, for years we have looked at Hijras, but never seen or understood them.- Reproduced 

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