Transsexualism in Hindu Mythology

In spite of India showing progress in various medical, economic and social fronts, the care of the transgender individual is still encumbered by the various biases and taboos that people hold. But, this was not true in the antiquity. Hindu mythology holds transgender individuals in a status equal to...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, Shiva Prakash, Chandrasekaran, Sruti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Endocrinology and Gender
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083261
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_152_20
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description In spite of India showing progress in various medical, economic and social fronts, the care of the transgender individual is still encumbered by the various biases and taboos that people hold. But, this was not true in the antiquity. Hindu mythology holds transgender individuals in a status equal to other genders. This brief review of the various references of transgender individuals in Hindu mythology throws light on the various ways the topic of transsexualism and changing gender was addressed.
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spelling pubmed-75390262020-10-19 Transsexualism in Hindu Mythology Srinivasan, Shiva Prakash Chandrasekaran, Sruti Indian J Endocrinol Metab Endocrinology and Gender In spite of India showing progress in various medical, economic and social fronts, the care of the transgender individual is still encumbered by the various biases and taboos that people hold. But, this was not true in the antiquity. Hindu mythology holds transgender individuals in a status equal to other genders. This brief review of the various references of transgender individuals in Hindu mythology throws light on the various ways the topic of transsexualism and changing gender was addressed. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7539026/ /pubmed/33083261 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_152_20 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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