AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) Tucked away in the Gomtipur ghetto sits the dusty pink home of Shobha, Shilpa and Joya, members of Ahmedabad’s small hijra community. Hijras, India’s “third gender ...

This surprised me, because India has a well-established category for gender-nonconforming people whose gender was assigned as male at birth – a group known as hijras. At the same time ...

The decision by the two-judge bench applies to what in India are traditionally known by the Hindi word hijras. The term is loosely used to include eunuchs and transvestites. The court stated ...

Such is the case of the hijras, the South Asian transsexual and transgender community in India, who have been open about their self-identification for centuries. The term hijra is widely used in ...

A year after that, India’s Parliament passed a law protecting transgender rights. But hijras are still India’s most socially excluded group. The hijras’ fortunes began to fall in the 1830s ...

As Mrs Postan discovered, prior to British dominance in India, hijras were often employed as guardians of the “virtue” of the harem, held ritualistic status as bestowers of fertility and owned land ...

Eunuchs are known in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as hijras or "impotent ones". "Our plan is to make this festival a platform for all sexual minorities, including gays and lesbians," said Famila of ...

A year after that, India’s Parliament passed a law protecting transgender rights. But hijras are still India’s most socially excluded group. The hijras’ fortunes began to fall in the 1830s ...

These are all misconceptions. The Hijra community in Mumbai, India, is a minority. We see them and yet we choose to ignore. We do not try to understand them. This minority suffers from ...

The film features a transgender woman character, as well as India’s diverse third-gender, or “hijra,” community. On his journey to get revenge on the corrupt guru and police chief who killed ...

AHMEDABAD, India — Tucked away in the Gomtipur ghetto sits the dusty pink home of Shobha, Shilpa and Joya, members of Ahmedabad’s small hijra community. Hijras, India’s “third gender ...