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[–]Agodachi 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You bring up really great points and resources. Do you have any idea why other racial and ethnic groups transition? I'm sure in the middle east it stems from homophobia. I'm not too sure of other places like Thailand.

[–]Astrid2448 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In most of these countries, these third genders are used on men who aren’t masculine enough to be considered real men. It isn’t some progressive thing, it’s an example of men like gay men being excluded by other men. They are given a low status and they are not seen as truly another sex, they’re seen as lesser men.

It’s really frustrating for me to see people use things like Hijra as evidence when Indians don’t even really support gay people. They generally think gay is caused by hormonal issues and that trans is an example of crazy white people. No one in India really believes that there are all these other genders, in fact they laugh at what places like the US do.