The Stigma Amongst The Hijras of India

This book, regardless of male or female, is an ethnographic magazine published in Hydiras Island, Greece in 1990. Serena Nanda, the author of this book, is professor of anthropology at the City University of New York. She had brief information about Hijras when she started outdoor research with Hijras's study. Because there were not many articles about them. Nanda knows that collisions will occur when communicating with Indian communities. And she needs to translate. There are three spoken languages ​​in Bastipore, her settlement located in the middle and south of India.

In India, it is widely believed that the concept of synonyms appears in the form of the "Hijra" community. An article published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2017, entitled "Understanding Indian Women's Mental Health," written by Dr. Vikas Jayadev highlights Indian Hijara's physical health dilemma doing. Mental Health Issues It emphasizes research on this population and lack of literature. This article includes existing literature revealing seriousness and dilemma of the people of Hijra community, physical health problems such as high HIV infection rate, depression, anxiety, self-injury, suicidality tendency and mental health problems is included. Substance abuse

Indian intersex problems are often considered as a matter of third gender. India's most famous third sex group is Hijra. After interviewing and investigating Hijra for many years, Serena Nanda wrote in her book as follows. "Male and female: Indian hijra" But there was no evidence to support the belief in Hijra I met. Everyone voluntarily participates in the community, usually teenagers. Minorities of indigenous peoples are very clear both men and women, they are called mabedi usili and are giving a unique identity to represent them. Furthermore, there is no evidence that there are few intersexuals that have chosen to be identified as transgender, but this is not the identity of the entire community.