Says Alessio: In a landmark judgment, in 2014, the Indian Supreme Court recognized the status of a Third Gender for Transgenders and Hijras, asking the Central Government to treat Transgenders as a socially and economically deprived social category that needs educational and employment reservation. Some four years later, on 6th...
Bangladesh’s Third Gender
Bangladeshi photographer Shahria Sharmin grew up believing that Hijras -- individuals who were designated male at birth but adopted feminine gender roles later in life -- were "less than human." Their physical appearance, their behavior and their general way of life, she explains, set them apart in her country's conservative...