Pakistan introduces 'third gender' option

Well, it's not really that surprising if you know the history of the region. The third gender has been around since ancient times. They were once revered, in fact.

 

'third gender' really only began to decline when the abrehamic religions started powergrabbing.

 

Transsexuals...don't need their own option on forms. Even though you're in the wrong body, it's still either one or the other. Pakistan's not forward thinking; in fact, they're completely doing it wrong...

 

No, you don't understand the culture. The third gender allows certain freedoms that you don't get from being male or female. If you're male, you're married to a woman you don't even know and expected to provide for a large community. It's a lot of pressure. If you're female, you married to guy you don't even know and you're expected to make babies and cook and clean for the entire community. Also a lot of work and pressure. The third gender is free from all of that.

 

There are lots of cultures that have a third gender option as a distinct identity..... and the people who are raised with that would often prefer to use that identity rather than male or female. There was a movement to have a third gender option on our census forms but the census was cancelled this year.