Living in a society
where you are tormented, bullied, and harassed can’t be much fun, yet
the half a million Hijras in India choose this lifestyle. Why would
someone choose this? It can’t be fun, having to beg for money, or being a
prostitute. But the thing is, they don’t have a choice. Since their
government won’t accept them as a gender, meaning that up until recently
they had a hard time acquiring passports, there isn’t much choice. As I
read more about the Hijra culture, I am beginning to be able to
understand them better. Every culture has people who are forced to do
whatever it takes to put food on the table for their loved ones. For the
Hijras, they have to turn to prostitution, begging, and the tax
collecting mentioned in a previous blog. Being the average white
American female (physically and mentally), I can’t imagine feeling like I
need to change my sex in order to be my true self.
For
the Hijras, although it is a difficult choice, and a life that they
would normally not choose, it is the correct choice, because it is who
they really are. It is not a good life, as many have said in the
readings I have done, but it is a true life. For many transsexual people
in the United States, an operation is not done, or just not considered.
For Hijras, an operation is the final step in their transformation,
although there are many today who are either hermaphrodites, have
genital disfiguration, or just choose not to have an operation, however
the majority have some sort of operation done. The operation the Hijras
receive, as mentioned in the previous blog, is considerably different
from the customary American one. This makes the Hijras even more
frightening for some people, because they don’t quite have proper
looking female genitalia, yet they look and act like females, and they
are mentally female. Choosing this life and surgery is one of the most
un-understandable things for me.
Works Cited:
Dutt, Nabanita
2002 Eunuchs-India's Third Gender. Electronic Document, http://thingsasian.com/stories-photos/2022, accessed October 22, 2008.
2002 Eunuchs-India's Third Gender. Electronic Document, http://thingsasian.com/stories-photos/2022, accessed October 22, 2008.
source: http://indianhijras.blogspot.in/2008/10/operation.html
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