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The Muslim Hijdas /Bahuchara Mata Hindu Hijdas – 1755 viewsThis was a senior Hijda lady who requested me to shoot her, I obliged.
From Wikpedia

In Hindu contexts, hijras belong to a special caste and are special devotees of the mother goddess Bahuchara Mata."
Bahuchara Mata is the goddess of the Hijra community of India.
Bahuchara mata is the goddess worshiped by transsexuals. She is seated on a rooster which symbolises innocence. The followers of Bahuchara mata believe in non-violence and consider killing of all animals and creatures a sin. Bahuchara mata is symbolized by a woman who carries a sword on her top right, a text of scriptures on her top left, shows the abhay hasta mudra on her bottom right (showering of blessings) and carries a trident on her bottom left.
In one of the many folk stories associated with Bahuchara mata, the goddess was once a princess who castrated her husband because he preferred going to forest and "behaving as a woman" instead of coming to her bridal bed. In another story, the man who attempted to molest Bahuchara mata was cursed with impotence. He was forgiven only after he gave up his masculinity, dressed as a woman and worshipped the goddess.
The temple of Bahuchara mata is located in Shankhalpoor in Gujarat, India. This holy place is today known as Bahucharaji.
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<img src="http://www.geocities.com/leylasuhagi/hijras_in_shrine_copy.jpg" alt="hijras in Pakistan" />

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/leylasuhagi/hijra.html">Muslim Hijras in India and Pakistan:

The enigmatic hijras, the male to female transgenders and intersexuals of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - few is known about them in the west, most of it consists of prejudices and wrong images. "Westerners" who deal with the hijras, for whatever purpose, often tend to overstate their relationship to Hinduism and hindu - culture. This is in no way strange, since in "the West" Hinduism tends to be identified with "tolerance, patience, non-violence" while Islam is connected with "terrorism, fanatism etc.". So, it is easily understandable that Europeans and Americans automatically relate the issue of gender diversity to Hinduism and not to Islam.
In fact, the hijra community is as much rooted in Indo - Pakistani Islam as it is in Hinduism; many hijras, if not most, are muslim - not only in muslim Pakistan and Bangladesh but also in hindu-secular India - and their old connection to the dynasties of muslim rule in India are an issue of pride to all of them, including the hindus.
Hijra is only the most frequently used term to describe them. It is derived from Urdu, the poetical language of the Indian Subcontinent`s islamic culture. Another widely used word for them is "khusra" which is from the Punjabi language (NorthWest India, NorthEast Pakistan). The Arab - Muslim term "mukhannath/muhannas" is also used in certain contexts and many hijras prefer that term. In English literature the word "eunuch" is most often employed to refer to them. This is correct as long as you relate it to the medieval muslim understanding of an eunuch (who was usually a mukhannath), but still it might conjure wrong pictures of "castrated men" in the minds of westerners.
The hijras are a remarkable community. Some hijras claim that "their society was once known from India to Spain", which was the expansion of the medieval muslim empire, and older hijras who did the Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) sometimes hint to a close connection between their society and the ancient society of "eunuchs" that guarded the grave of noble Prophet Muhammad (s.a.s.) and the sacred mosque in Makkah.
In that way one might assume that today`s muslim hijra communities are the only intact survivors of medieval muslim "mukhannath" society , while at the same time having local connections to ancient hindu traditions.
On these pages I will explain some features of "hijra - culture" and their relationship to Indo- Pakistani Islam. Hopefully I might also disspell some prejudices and wrong myths.
May God bless the hijra community in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, may he guard the hijras and may he guard their precious heritage!

1. Defining the hijra community

2. Hijras, stigmatization and the glorious past

3. Hijras and general Islam in India and Pakistan

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