Members of the Hijra community came to the rescue of an 18-year-old girl during an attempted rape in Rasulpur Char of ...

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 ...

Officials estimate there are about 10,000 hijras, or third-gender people, in Bangladesh but rights groups say the figure could be as high as 1.5 million in the country of 170 million.

Bangladesh military personnel check vehicles for Rohingya refugees on the road that connects refugee camps to the nearby tourist town of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2017. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) ...

In Bangladeshi society, the term hijra is used generously and with abandon; not only is it used for members of the intersex or transgender community, it is a rebuke, used to call out effeminate ...

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, a legally recognised third gender in the country, are often discriminated against in employment and are much more likely to be victims of violent crime and poverty than the average Bangladeshi.

Mymensingh (Bangladesh) (AFP) – Kicked out of other prayer services, members of Bangladesh's transgender hijra community have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority nation with the ...

Several have entered Bangladeshi politics, with one transgender woman elected mayor of a rural town in 2021. But hijra still struggle for basic recognition and acceptance, lacking property and ...

Hence, It is crucial to find a peaceful balance between facts and assumptions while educating an uninitiated audience on the concept of gender beyond binary identities. Hijras and gender identity It ...