The Third Sex and Human Rights

The book presents a comparative study of the human rights abuses and legal problems faced by members of the third sex in India, complications regarding marriage adoption and sexual status, with relevant and important documents, petitions field challenging the criminalization of homosexuality, and extracts from international human rights treatise for human rights activists, social scientist, lawyers, concerned citizens. “The hijras in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh represent a terribly marginalized minority community, to the extent that they are even ignored by human rights activists. In this book, the author argues that their situation can be compared with that of transsexuals in the west, both in terms of the psycho-social compulsions faced by a man who voluntarily decides to become a hijra or alternately a male to female transsexual as well as in terms of the complications regarding marriage, adoption and sexual status.”

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