<div dir="ltr">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." <div>
<br></div><div>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.<div>
<div><br></div><div>Nick</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Paul Rumelhart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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On 11/02/2013 07:29 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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<div><span><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/23861405/newborns-now-registered-as-third-sex" target="_blank">http://www.khq.com/story/23861405/newborns-now-registered-as-third-sex</a></span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Parents had previously been required by law to register their
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