Transgender identities: Drag queen, Drag king, Hijra, Two-Spirit, Kathoey, Trans woman, Mukhannathun, Bacha bazi, Trans man, Uranian, Sissy, Muxe, Faafafine, Genderqueer, Bissu, Akavaine, Tranimal, Bigender, Wewha, Fakaleiti, Travesti, Khanith, Lhamana

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Drag queen, Drag king, Hijra, Two-Spirit, Kathoey, Trans woman, Mukhannathun, Bacha bazi, Trans man, Uranian, Sissy, Muxe, Fa'afafine, Genderqueer, Bissu, Akava'ine, Tranimal, Bigender, We'wha, Fakaleiti, Travesti, Khanith, Lhamana, Mak nyah, Mahu. Excerpt: In the culture of South Asia, hijras (Hindi: , Urdu: , Bengali: , Kannada: , Telugu: ) or chakka in Kannada, khusra in Punjabi and kojja in Telugu are physiological males who have feminine gender identity, women's clothing and other feminine gender roles. Hijras have a long recorded history in the Indian subcontinent, from the antiquity, as suggested by the Kama Sutra, period onwards. This history features a number of well-known roles within subcontinental cultures, part gender-liminal, part spiritual and part survival. In South Asia, many hijras live in well-defined, organized, all-hijra communities, led by a guru. These communities have sustained themselves over generations by "adopting" young boys who are rejected by, or flee their family of origin. Many work as prostitutes for survival. The word hijra is Urdu, derived from the Arabic root hjr in its sense of "leaving one's tribe," and has been borrowed into Hindi. The Indian usage has traditionally been translated into English as "eunuch" or "hermaphrodite," where "the irregularity of the male genitalia is central to the definition." However, in general hijras are born with typically male physiology, only a few having been born with male intersex variations. Historically, ceremonial initiation into the hijra community is said to have involved removal of a boy's penis, testicles and scrotum, without anesthetic, at or around puberty. However, according to Mumbai health organization The Humsafar Trust, only eight percent of hijras visiting their clinic are nirwaan (castrated). Since the late 20th century, some hijra activists and Western non-government organizations (NGOs) have been lobbying for official recognition of the hijra as a kind of "third sex" or "third gender," as neither man nor woman. The Urdu and Hindi word hijra may alternately be romanized as hijira, hijda, hijada, hijara, hijrah and is pronounced . This term is generally considered derogatory in Urdu and the word Khwaja Saraa is used instead. In In