Third Gender - How long before this can happen here in Canada?

[WillEee]

An interesting article I found this morning that is worth a read.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/pakistan/article/761722--pakistan-s-high-court-finds-merit-in-third-gender-id?bn=1

I do not particularly like the designation suggested for such persons (eunuch), but that is a matter of semantics. What is important is that legal recognition of the gender has been recommended by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Gender has actually been recognized in India, where such individuals are legally entitled to be registered as "Other" rather than Male or Female.

[WillEee]

Wha happen?

Oh, Oh - I just went back to the Star to check on the story again and it has been replaced. The link was working though as of 11 am.

[merelypink]

yeah someone pulled it

[dan_calgary]

good read

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN?Sanhya ran away at age 12, searching for acceptance as she sees herself ? neither male nor female, but a member of a third gender.
Pakistan's transgender community has long lived on society's margins, harassed by police, ridiculed as freaks, pitied as the outcast people of Allah and often rejected by their own families. Now the Supreme Court is giving them hope through a petition for their rights to be respected.
"People are recognizing that we are also human beings," said Almas Bobby, who acts as head of the community and fights for equal rights.
Hearings by the court over the past 11 months could be the first step toward bringing them into the mainstream. The court already has suggested authorities consider adding a third gender to state-issued identity cards ? a bold proposal in conservative Pakistan.
The community, said to number several hundred thousand, is known as khusra, which Pakistanis translate as "eunuch," though the meaning is broader than a castrated man, the common definition in the West. Besides transsexuals, it includes hermaphrodites, those with male and female sexual organs. Some had sex-change surgery.
In Pakistan and other South Asian countries, khusra born male often see themselves as neither sex yet they wear women's clothing and refer to each other as "she."
On identity cards, "they wrote men," Bobby said. "We want eunuch. If we are eunuch, please write eunuch, not men."
Adding a third gender would be a symbolic victory, giving the community hope of social acceptance, she said. The idea borrows from neighbouring India; its election commission ruled late last year the transgendered could register to vote as "other," not male or female.
"Our parents feel embarrassed for us to be called khusra," said Sanhya, now 19, who lives with other khusra in Rawalpindi. Several dozen khusra gathered recently to remember Nadia Malik, 28. Found slain in the city, she had been stabbed repeatedly and run over by a car.

interesting article

I don't like the term other, I agree with them when they say

If we are eunuch, please write eunuch, not men."

[tslisaparadise]

interesting article

I don't like the term other, I agree with them when they say

i find it distastefull period,packyland need to worry more about harbouring terrerist the fucking idiots.