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[[File:Hermaphrodite Indian entertainers (c. 1865).jpg|thumb|A group of Hijra, circa 1865.]]
[[File:Hermaphrodite Indian entertainers (c. 1865).jpg|thumb|A group of Hijra, circa 1865.]]
[[File:Hijra Protest Islamabad.jpg|thumb|A Pakistani hijra at a protest between two hijra groups from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. 2008.]]
[[File:Hijra Protest Islamabad.jpg|thumb|A Pakistani hijra at a protest between two hijra groups from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. 2008.]]
In south Asian countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the [[Hijra]] are people who were [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] and who have a [[femininity|feminine]] [[gender expression]]. This is a very ancient tradition of a [[nonbinary]]  [[gender role]] (often called "[[third gender]]"). The Hijra in India alone may number as many as 2,000,000.<ref>Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, 310 pp., University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0-226-70755-5 (see p. 8)</ref>
In south Asian countries including India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the [[Hijra]] are people who were [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] and who have a [[femininity|feminine]] [[gender expression]]. This is a very ancient tradition of a [[nonbinary]]  [[gender role]] (often called "[[third gender]]"). The Hijra in India alone may number as many as 2,000,000.<ref>Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, 310 pp., University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0-226-70755-5 (see p. 8)</ref>


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