In India, nearly half a million people live as eunuchs, not man or woman, but considered an entirely separate gender.
Note from Reclaiming Natural Manhood website:
1. Note how the Western interviewer is putting words into the mouth of Mona, by translating her words as, "I wish people will not consider me third sex." That is an outright lie. Mona would like to be considered as a human, is what she said, as a Hijra human... She did not say that she will chose any other identity than the third sex. This is a Western attempt to discredit the Third sex identity. Stupid Western cultural imperialism. They think they know the best.
2. It is clear that the Western concept of Heterosexuality is a rehashed version of the Third sex identity. The entire discussion on Hijras on this video is about 'sexual orientation' and 'homosexuality', when these people are not even men who have sex with men, as they claim the definition of homosexuality is.
3. Note that when they refer to non-Western facts, they qualify it as "Indians believe that hijras are a third gender." But when they are talking about own beliefs, they talk about it as universal truths. Like when they talk about 'homosexuals' or 'homosexuality'.
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