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Энэтхэгийн трансжендэр эмэгтэйчүүд

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 Энэтхэгийн трансжендэр эмэгтэйчүүд

 

 
 

 

Change: Less than 12 months ago the Supreme Court granted legal recognition to the community as a third gender

 

Hijras live together in houses where a chief or godmother acts as leader. There are no men and they adopt a combination of Hindu and Muslim cultures

 

Hidden: Aside from going to work, hijras usually don't go out in public and most restaurants will not let them dine there
Traditional: They have maintained a traditional Indian style, in contrast to many middle and upper class women who have cut their hair and wear western clothing

 

The hijras wear traditional Indian clothing and apply makeup in their transgender homes - which are often small, dark and damp

 

Religion: They adopt a combination of Hindu and Muslim cultures and refer to each other as mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers and great-grandmothers

 

Prostitution: Many are encouraged to become prostitutes due to the financial benefits as well as beg in return for blessings
Even if they do marry, some hijras do not live with their husbands - perhaps seeing them monthly or as little as once a year - and often the marriages have unhappy endings

 

Aside from going to work, hijras usually don't go out in public and most restaurants will not let them dine there
They dress traditionally in saris

 

The rights of transgender people may be changing, but even the country's first mayor has admitted to being a former beggar

 

Beauty: They have maintained a traditional Indian style, in contrast to many middle and upper class women
Friendship: They often prefer to stay within the safety of their transgender homes, giving each other companionship

 

Hijras are described as 'men minus maleness' and face a life of Isolation, begging and prostitution

 

New lifes: Some hijras flee their homes and find refuge with her new transgender families where they start new lives

 

Employment: Traditionally, hijras beg and give blessings in return, as well as dance and entertain

Madhu Bai Kinnar, centre, has become India's first-ever transgender mayor after abandoning her life of singing and dancing for change to put herself forward to represent her community

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