The Third Gender

Delhi University has now added a “third sex” category to the admissions application,

Transgenders get space in DU’s PG admission forms
Times of India
By Manash Pratim Gohain
Aug 13, 2014
NEW DELHI: Delhi University has officially opened its doors to transgenders in postgraduate programmes this year and will extend the policy to undergraduate courses in the next academic year (2015-16) by introducing space for the third gender in its application forms.
Applicants from this community will be admitted under a separate category, varsity officials said. In postgraduate admissions, these students have been enrolled under a special category within the OBC quota.
"We had planned to start transgender admissions in undergraduate courses from this year but could not do so due to administrative reasons. From 2015-16 academic session, we will be introducing the third gender option in centralized admission forms and also make necessary policies for their admission," said DU registrar Alka Sharma.

Okay first off the special category OBC means, Other Backward Class which means lower castes that are educationally and socially disadvantaged. I believe that means what we call minorities but it sounds like it is a left handed complement. And the LGBT community in India also thinks so but for a different reason,

LGBT activists, however, expressed some concern about transgenders being enrolled under the OBC category in the applications.
LGBT activist and a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Gourab Ghosh, said, "It will not be fair for transgenders to transgress into OBC category as they are not OBC. A separate quota can be worked out else it would be injustice to both OBCs and transgenders."

I don’t like it when they ask you for you gender and say “other,” I don’t know about you but I am not an “other” and I don’t know it I like “third gender” either. I can see listing your transgender status on medical records but not on anything else, I feel that it separates and labels us special.

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