[Vision2020] Newborns Now Registered As Third Sex

[Nicholas Gier]

In India the British called them "eunuchs" but the Indians themselves use
the Urdu term "hijra."  They self-identify as female, but they insist that
they are neither male or female. They have been lobbying for a law similar
to that which the Germans have just passed. There is much more in Wikipedia
under "hijras."

I've attached a file of two of them extorting money from two fathers (one
of them my colleague in Gandhi studies) at a December, 1999 wedding in New
Delhi. When the flow of 100 rupee notes ($2.50) stopped, one of them
started to undress, and the money kept going for some time thereafter.

Nick


On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Instead of registering babies born with traits of both sexes as "neither
> male nor female", shouldn't they register them as "both male and female"?
> Makes no sense to me otherwise.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 11/02/2013 07:29 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
>
> Courtesy of KHQ News at:
>
>  http://www.khq.com/story/23861405/newborns-now-registered-as-third-sex
>
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>
>  Newborns Now Registered As Third Sex
> BERLIN (AP) - A new law has gone into effect allowing German parents to
> register their newborn babies as neither male nor female if they were born
> with traits of both sexes.
>
> The German Parliament in January approved the law that went into effect
> Friday. The German Ethics Council, an advisory group, had urged the change
> to take the pressure off parents to make a hasty decision and possibly
> commit to surgery immediately after birth, the dpa news agency reported.
>
> The council had argued, among other things, that many people born with
> both sex characteristics who were operated on as children say they wouldn't
> have consented to the surgery.
>
> Parents had previously been required by law to register their children's
> name and gender within one week with authorities
>
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>
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> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>
>  Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
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