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@joelle The number of hermaphrodites or intersex babies born is an extreme minority. In my 56 years on this planet I have met just one.
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 @britishtechguru @joelle we should not commit the error of romanticising the East. The hijras in India are a mix of trans, eunuchs, and intersex individuals and are very low on their social ladder and subject to abuse. Both the west and the east have their own issues with gender discrimination. Also: Most of the west cares little about the bible nowadays, I know it might be a surprise to the US and a few other countries that we don't even care about the religion of our politicians. @ncrav @britishtechguru I do agree we shoudln't romanticize or exoticize the east, but a major reason that the hijras have low social status is due to the legacy of European colonization. @joelle @britishtechguru yes the colonization didn't help but all those centuries (millennia perhaps) of caste systems didn't exactly help as well. |
@britishtechguru I’ve met dozens (that I know of — most people don’t talk about thie reproductive organs and/or chromosomes and/or hormone sensitivities in random conversation!) and am married to one. But the size of that minority is irrelevant, the point is that there is an entirely different standard applied to trans people — because of moral disapproval.