Difference Between Gender And Third Gender

The third gender is described as a natural mixing or combination of male or female natures to the point in which they can no longer be categorized as male or female in traditional sense of the world. People of the third sex are also classified under a large social category known as the ‘neutral sex’. Its members are called napumsaka- those who do not engage in procreation.

Third gender and third sex is the concept in which individuals categorized ( by their will or social consensus) as neither man nor women, as well as the social category present in those societies who recognize three or more genders. Gender is something we are born with and affects the way our body functions. Gender characteristics are based on physical and genetic sexuality at the time of birth.

Transgender is a term used to refer to a multiple group of people who summon socially constructed gender standard. This term, in common parlance is used to refer to people who cross dress, gay, lesbian and bisexuals. Cross-dressing means a desire to wear clothes associated with another sex. Transgender, intersex or transsexual are referred to those individual of the society whose physical body structure is known to be incongruent or unequal with their self perception as a male or female and who also desired to have undergone surgical and/or hormonal interventions so as to alter their physical identity. Acceptance of the third gender witnesses different conditions across the world. This community strives for