{"id":197,"date":"2009-12-27T23:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T23:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2009-12-27T23:14:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T23:14:27","slug":"pakistani-eunuchs-to-have-distinct-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani eunuchs to have distinct gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/eunuchs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/eunuchs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eunuchs\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eunuchs are seen as social outcasts by Pakistan's largely conservative society<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court says eunuchs must be allowed to identify themselves as a distinct gender in order to ensure their rights.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe eunuchs, known as &#8220;hijras&#8221; in Pakistan, are men castrated at an early age for medical or social reasons.<br \/>\nThe court said they should be issued with national identity cards showing their distinct gender.<br \/>\nThe government has also been ordered to take steps to ensure they are entitled to inherit property.<br \/>\n&#8216;Respect and identity&#8217;<br \/>\nThere are estimated to be about 300,000 hijras in Pakistan and they are generally shunned by the largely Muslim conservative society.<br \/>\nThey tend to live together in slum communities, surviving through begging and by dancing at weddings and carnivals.<br \/>\nA hijra association has welcomed the order, saying it is &#8220;a major step giving respect and identity in society&#8221;.<br \/>\nIndian authorities last month agreed to list eunuchs and transgender people by using the term &#8220;others&#8221;, distinct from males and females, on electoral rolls and voter identity cards, after a long-running campaign by the members of the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court says eunuchs must be allowed to identify themselves as a distinct gender in order to ensure their rights. The eunuchs, known as &#8220;hijras&#8221; in Pakistan, are men castrated at an early age for medical or social reasons. The court said they should be issued with national identity cards showing their distinct gender. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}