1ST INTERACTION WITH OTHER

As a student during my studies I have heard drag king and queens who cross-dresses to amuse others. Long ago I learned about how Hijra’s who are distinct community of people who are thought to be marginalised and have different way of earning money. People call them beggars but calling them beggars would comparing them with priest as both give blessing upon getting the money and many of my known people found blessing of Hijras auspicious also there are instances where people says how curse of Hijras have brought bad omens to their family. I have never interacted with hijras except once when they asked for money and I refused and astonishingly after that no one ever approached me for money. I don’t know the reason but it makes me curious.   
Moving forward to recent past when I joined an organisation which support a LGBTKH(lesbian gay bisexual transgender kothi) community I came across people who identify themselves as transgender and It confused me as I used think that after male female other genders all were Hijras. We chatted briefly, my stereotype thinking changed after the brief conversation and but I was still confused how to address "him/her". So I came up with an idea to classify on the basis of physical attribute and I thought of him as male and added Da with his name. He graciously replied to that so that day I added da with his name. I observed them as if they were people from other world I don’t know if they noticed or not. But they have some reflexes that were not synonymous to my understanding of acceptable notion of known behaviour. The way they spoke have ting of feminine to it.            

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