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She is the author of Unarvum Uruvamum (Feeling and Form), the first of its kind in English from a member of the hijra community. [87] [88] She acted and directed stage plays on gender and sexuality issues in Tamil and Kannada. The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story [89] is part of the syllabus for final year students of The American College in ...
Bagoas (4th century BCE): prime minister of king Artaxerxes III of Persia, and his assassin (Bagoas is an old Persian word meaning eunuch). Bagoas, 4th century BCE: a favorite of Alexander the Great. Batis, 4th century BCE: resisted Alexander the Great at the Siege of Gaza (332 BCE). Philetaerus, 4th/3rd century BCE: founder of the Kingdom of ...
Hijras of Delhi. Hijra generally describes the self-organised spiritual and social community (from either the Hindu or Muslim religious traditions) of transgender women in North India, while in a historical sense it can also denote eunuchs in the Western sense of the word (as males who have been castrated and who serve as members of a royal or noble court).
HIJRA (Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid), an African organization; Hijra (South Asia), a term for eunuchs, transgender and intersex people; Hijrat, a South Asian term for protest emigration; Hijrat, Pakistani, 2016
In c.400, Augustine wrote in The Literal Meaning of Genesis that humans were created in two sexes, despite "as happens in some births, in the case of what we call androgynes". [16] Historical accounts of intersex people include the sophist and philosopher Favorinus, described as a eunuch (εὐνοῦχος) by birth.
The language is introduced to newcomers when they enter the hijra community, together with the group’s alternative family structure, cultural norms, and other traditions. Having a language that creates a sense of a community is a necessity for hijras, who typically give up a great deal when they join the community.
President Trump will on his first day in office Monday issue an order defining a person's sex as "male or female" — requiring government agencies to use the "immutable" designation on forms and ...
Mukhannath (مُخَنَّث; plural mukhannathun (مُخَنَّثون); "effeminate ones", "ones who resemble women") was a term used in Classical Arabic and Islamic literature to describe effeminate men or people with ambiguous sexual characteristics, [6] who appeared feminine and functioned sexually or socially in roles typically carried out by women. [8]