Posted on 04/15/2014 2:43:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
India's Supreme Court has created an official third sex for its transgender eunuchs and announced they will have a quota of government jobs and college places to help them overcome discrimination.
The decision was met with jubilation by transgender charities who said it was a milestone in their fight against marginalisation in Indian society.
"We are elated and thankful to the court," said Kalki Subramanium, a leading transgender rights activist. "The decision has come after a century of suppression and marginalisation by the legal and social systems.
"This verdict is certainly landmark and a new beginning. The biggest challenge is the social recognition. We have to educate and make people aware that we exist and there's nothing abnormal about us. This will give a boost to the transgenders who want to study or work but were denied a chance. They can now be part of the mainstream,"
Indias transgenders include those who feel they were born into the wrong sex, men born with deformed genitals and effeminate boys disowned by their families and sent to live in eunuch colonies....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Mutilation does not create a new sex
This third sex is simply known as “Obama.”
Actually, hon, there's something abnormal about you.
~Benny Lava
(I'd like to see him pee on us tonight!)
Now, I will always wonder exactly what is answering my inquiry on my credit card!!!!!
Hello my name is Peggy...
Just bizarre, especially on heels of the reinstatement of anti-sodomy laws.
I have a feeling the Modi admin might just ignore those quotas.
sounds very reasonable.
Isn’t it already exist? What about ‘it’ sex?
I don’t think this is going to go over well with the general Indian population.
Narendra Modi, who looks to maybe win the presidential election now in progress, will not like this; he’s a Hindu traditionalist.
"By the Holy Trunk of Gonesh
Pleasing Offerings of Incense
Be Up Your Snout and Fill Your Mind
Vith Multi Sexual Perversions!"
(HAha! I see eet ees vorking already!)
At one point in the past few months, the Indian Supreme Court recriminalized homosexuality. So this is a dumbfounding decision.
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