Study reveals ongoing stigma, discrimination, and violence against transwomen in India, impacting mental health significantly ...

Following this, Sarkar then moves to examining sites of “holy and unholy gender” — women saints, hijras, courtesans and sex workers, interracial relationships, same sex desire and love, and prisons ...

Many also believe that intersex people are “naturally born hijras” But an intersex person may identify as a man, a woman, or neither and they do not all identify with hijra communities. Smita Shah ...