Season for Unusual Events in Unbelievable Places
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One of the more unusual places for something like this to come up: Pakistan. Or maybe not.
Wikipedia article is sympathetic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29#Gender_i..., but BBC seems somewhat less so:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8428819.stm
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