https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/this-bill-is-nothing-but-erasure-how-indias-new-trans-amendment-could-undo-decades-of-rightsPour one out for the jeets>Community groups and legal experts argue that the amendment weakens the principle of gender self-determination affirmed in the Supreme Court ruling, erases trans men, non-binary people, and others who fall outside its newly narrowed categories, and places transgender people under unprecedented state and medical scrutiny>The redefinition's most immediate victims are trans men and anyone assigned female at birth (AFAB) who is gender-diverse. No socio-cultural identity exists for trans men anywhere in India, except in Manipur, where a cultural identity called Nupamanba exists, says Fred Rogers, a Chennai-based man of transgender experience. For the rest of the country, they simply do not exist in the Bill's imagination.>"So where do we fit? This Bill completely erases us," he says. "The 2019 Act explicitly included trans men, trans women, and genderqueer. This Bill removes all three."More or less they are getting rid of trans terminology but allowing mtfs in as part of older indian tribal groups like hijra.
>>42964119>except in Manipur, where a cultural identity called Nupamanba existsOmg can you imagine all the theyfabs moving to this one little state? Truly a poonchaser paradise
>>42964119Hijra are a fucking psyop. Read Talia Bhatt.
>>42964119I don't think the politics of a country whose rural population has yet to learn how to use sanitation is going to be very insightful.
>>42964153https://www.tumblr.com/taliabhattwrites/773569227417436161/is-hijra-a-slur-contextualizing-south-asian>On a final, personal note, I also wish to clearly state that I do not reject the label ‘hijra’ because I consider myself essentially different from them. Many Indian (usually upper-caste) trans women wish to distance themselves from the hijra, as though reproducing our society’s disgust for them will spare them from the same fate. >That is not an attitude I share, or wish to normalize. The hijra—both those who affirmatively identify with the term, and those who wish to distance themselves from it—are my sisters.>I have simply not been granted the honor of being part of the communities and kin structures, and I do not wish to appropriate their struggles out of respect. Even still, their struggles are and will always be mine.Aww I get it. Hijra are hsts, poor, sex workers, etc. But also have their cool communal things like the ballroom scene. Indian trans in contrast are AGPs. So this just further strengthens the point. India is banning pooners, theyfabs, and agps leaving only mtf hsts
>>42964119the patriarchy showing again that women are its properties.
>>42964119they got the right answer even if it was accidentally
>>42964119oh gee just look at the time, more faith-based oppression of trans people
>>42964240Hijra is specifically a third sex label forced onto a class of people, many of whom are otherwise binary trans women. Hijra means Faggot.
>>42965036Yes, I am saying the english term for Hijra is "HSTS"
>>42965069HSTS also means faggot
>>42965069No, it's not. It's specifically a category, like Kathoey, that is used to throw a wide variety of different people of different categories (trans women, effeminate men, non-binary transfems, etc.) under a third sex umbrella. It's not HSTS because it explicitly includes AGPs.
>>42965097Idk the way >>42964240describes it it sounds like a subcategory of trans women that includes effeminate gay men being sex workers and having their own catty subscultures. Sounds an awful lot like hustuss to me. Especially because they're also poor.Then the rich upper-caste indian trans women map very cleanly onto AGP. They're well educated rather than retarded like hsts/hijra, etc.You gotta admit, there's a lot of overlap with these tropes.
>>42965145Rich == AGP and Poor == HSTS doesn't map at all, especially when the richer ones are those who transition earlier (like most HSTS). Also, here's a much more detailed essay by the author: https://taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-sexTL;DR the Hijra classification is imposed onto a broader variety of transfems by cisnormative society, not as a measure of respect, but as a force of oppression.
All Third Gender fem identities are HSTS at their core.
>>42965198>Rich == AGP and Poor == HSTS doesn't map at allAre you American or?Anyways in the US the tropes of HSTS are that they are black or latina and impoverished. Even among white trans that are clearly hsts the narrative is they ran away from home at 16 and then pursued their transition while on the streets sex working.Here is an example of one such hustuss:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Woodlawn>Holly Woodlawn was born Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl on October 26, 1946 in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. Woodlawn's father was a German-American who was a soldier in the U.S. Army, and Woodlawn's mother was Puerto Rican. Woodlawn's mother moved to New York for work. While there, she met and married Joseph Ajzenberg when they were both working as wait staff at a Catskills resort. The family moved to Miami Beach, where Woodlawn's name was changed to Harold Ajzenberg>Woodlawn later said that she "came out very young... I was having sex when I was seven and eight in the bushes with my uncles and cousins - of course, they were only 11 or 12 themselves... Then Miami Beach. All the Cubans arrived after Castro took over, and that's where I really came out, on 21st Street in Miami Beach>In 1962, aged 15 or 16, Woodlawn ran away from home, heading north from Florida to New York City with some "Cuban queens".[2] Woodlawn has said that she left home with only $27 and began hitchhiking.> In her memoir, A Low Life in High Heels, she said: "At the age of 16, when most kids were cramming for trigonometry exams, I was turning tricks, living off the streets Such is the life of a hustuss. Also notice they are usually low caste (hispanic/black)
>>42965950Again, this is only true for HSTS who are poor to begin with. Wealthy HSTS with supportive environments don't do this.
>>42965977I mean can you name a single wealthy huss who was born wealthy rather than coming into it later?
>>42966094Though I think it may actually be more complex.AGP is probably more middle class and especially white collar. I think you could see huss among the upper crust, for instance you might find some in Palm Beach or the ritzy parts of NYC. Upper class people are very similar to poor people in many ways.But yea, no white collar suburban hsts let's phrase it like that
>>42965250im told hrtfemboys and hrtwinks are agp
>>42966094They become stealth uber passoid gigayoungshits. Are you defining HSTS as sex workers?
