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EUNUCH - STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION

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Hello all, Recently, I watched a TV drama on “ARY Digital” with the title “Khuda Mera Bhi hai,” meaning “God is mine too”. The subject was the acceptance of eunuchs as children and citizens. Most civilized countries have no issues in this regard; people of this gender are living a satisfied life there, but in Asia, this gender is not treated as they deserve. We have a discriminatory attitude towards them. There was an era when they had a respected status in the palaces of Mughal emperors. In our society, a lot of people want to hear this sentence at the time of delivery: “Congratulations, it is a baby boy.” Few are satisfied with a baby girl, but the situation worsens when it is the third gender. Most parents refuse to accept such a child right after birth. They think that it is shameful to accept them and that society will make fun of this incident.  People assume such parents are unhealthy in a way that they are unable to give birth to a boy or a girl. This is a tra...