This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — Salma lives in a crowded refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. On a late evening in September 2023, she put on a ...

Bangladesh's hijra community is complex, unique and replete with specific cultural and social features that make it difficult to translate and categorise the group's identity into a monolithic ...

Hijra have been the beneficiaries of growing legal recognition in Bangladesh, which since 2013 has officially allowed members of the community to identify as a third gender.

History of the hijra. In Bangladesh, and in other South Asian countries such as India, "hijra" are most often intersex individuals — those born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that is not ...

Bangladesh’s recognition of the hijra community as “third gender” is one performative policy. Refreshing inclusion of gender diversity and sensitivity in trial textbook.

History of the hijra. In Bangladesh, and in other South Asian countries such as India, “hijra” are most often intersex individuals — those born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that is ...

By Azad Majumder. Dhaka, Apr 5 (EFE).- A Muslim charity has helped transgender people in Bangladesh build their first-ever mosque and set up an exclusive graveyard for them in a north divisional ...

Hijra is a South Asian term that refers to transgender people, and has roots in ancient religious practices in the region. Bangladesh and nearby India recognize hijra as a third gender.

The five women – all hijra, a South Asian cultural identity which includes trans, intersex and non-binary people – were headed to a wedding outside their camp, where, Salma said, they had been ...