Hijra: Difference between revisions
Excluded Indonesia from the list of south Asian countries. Indonesia is southeast Asian. Also, Indonesia knows no hijras. In our language, those people are called 'banci'. 'Hijrah' means the emigration of Muhammad and his companions from Mecca to Medina.
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(Excluded Indonesia from the list of south Asian countries. Indonesia is southeast Asian. Also, Indonesia knows no hijras. In our language, those people are called 'banci'. 'Hijrah' means the emigration of Muhammad and his companions from Mecca to Medina.) |
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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 | 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> | ||
==Legal Recognition== | ==Legal Recognition== | ||