Forced into the Third Gender (Hijra, the Third Gender)

A Hijra Story

Forced into the 3rd Gender

The beautiful loving mother of a boy (the protagonist) dies, and his father (a navy captain) marries a woman with two kids. The boy loves the new elder sister, but the new brother who happens to be of the same age as him is a nuisance. The stepmother makes every attempt to humiliate him and try to let his father to "disown" him, so that her own son can be the heir. He is framed by the stepmother to be feminized and become a "hijra".

Hijra, the Third Gender

series consist of 8 fictions and a non-fiction.

Abducted into the 3rd Gender
A Dancer of the 3rd Gender
A Feminized President
Born into the 3rd Gender
Conspired into the 3rd Gender
Enchanted into the 3rd Gender
Forced into the 3rd Gender
Transgendered People of India (non-fiction)

[What is Hijra?]
Hijra is a word used in India and in other South Asian countries referring to male to female transgender individuals. A hijra would be adopted by a guru in the well organized transgender community believing in the same goddess and living in feminine attire. Rules and ceremonies for adoption, initiation, castration, etc. are well defined in the hijra community. Once you get nirvan (a castration ceremony often done without anesthesia) you cannot go back to your former self. Most hijras live under extremely poor economic conditions with very low status. The word hijra is often used in a derogatory manner. Few employment opportunities are available to hijras. Many get their income performing at ceremonies, begging and prostitution. Hijras face discrimination in health, housing, education, employment and other procedures which involve gender classification.