{"id":396,"date":"2015-03-19T22:16:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-03-26T21:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T21:39:16","slug":"bangladeshs-third-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh\u2019s Third Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-397\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=396 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-397\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-03-19-um-23.08.13-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Bildschirmfoto-2015-03-19-um-23.08.13\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-03-19-um-23.08.13-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-03-19-um-23.08.13-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-03-19-um-23.08.13.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shahria Sharmin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">Shahria Sharmin had gone to her husband\u2019s factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, looking to tell a positive story about\u00a0<\/span>the garment industry, one that would offset negative public perceptions. What she found, instead, was an even more\u00a0challenging topic: the lives of five hijras, the local term for the culture of men who identify as women. By day, they\u00a0presented themselves as men, but at night they dressed as women and kept a home for their boyfriends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">That this was happening in Bangladesh, which has the world\u2019s fourth largest Muslim population, intrigued\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/shahriasharmin.com\/\">Ms. Sharmin<\/a>,\u00a0who grew up in a conservative family in which such topics were never discussed. (New York Times)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/18\/bangladeshs-third-gender\/?_r=4&amp;utm_content=buffer23bc8&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/18\/bangladeshs-third-gender\/?_r=4&amp;utm_content=buffer23bc8&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahria Sharmin had gone to her husband\u2019s factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, looking to tell a positive story about\u00a0the garment industry, one that would offset negative public perceptions. What she found, instead, was an even more\u00a0challenging topic: the lives of five hijras, the local term for the culture of men who identify as women. 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