Nonbinary gender identities frequently come under attack in the United States. From Elon Musk's claims that transgender people suffer from "woke mind virus" to efforts in some U.S. states to curtail ...

Kicked out of other prayer services, members of Bangladesh's transgender hijra community have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority nation with the promise of worship without ...

Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen’s road movie “Hijra,” centered on the bond formed between different generations of Saudi women during a journey across the desert, has been selected as Saudi Arabia’s ...

Kinnars say that fortunate are those whose childbirth and marriage are blessed by their presence, and they believe that Lord Ram himself ordained them to bless people. A part of the hijra community, ...

Saudi writer-director Shahad Ameen returns to the Venice Film Festival with “Hijra,” which has its world premiere in the Spotlight section. Her debut “Scales” also premiered in Venice and then went on ...

Representatives of the transgender community met West Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal on Wednesday with concerns over voter identity rules ...

ch. 1. Hijra roles in Indian society -- ch. 2. The Hijra as neither man nor woman -- ch. 3. Emasculation ritual among the Hijras -- ch. 4. Social organization and economic adaptation -- ch. 5.

Saudi Arabia has chosen Shahad Ameen’s female-focused drama Hijra as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards, the Saudi Film Commission announced on ...

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, convener of Citizen's Platform for SDGs, today said amid rising fear and repression, vulnerable groups in Bangladesh say they have been forced into silence, with women, the ...

The Election Commission has found more than 117 million people eligible for casting vote in the upcoming parliamentary ...