"Kyle Knight, researcher in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights program and another Human Rights Watch researcher researched and wrote this report"--Acknowledgments. (page 32). Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Summary -- Methodology -- Glossary -- Background -- Hijras, Class, and Caste -- Recognition of Hijras -- Procedure and Prejudice: A Welcome Announcement -- The Interview -- A So-Called Medical Examination: The Physical Exam -- The Ultrasound -- A Third Test -- Fallout After the Abuses at the Hospital -- Best Practices for Legal Gender Recognition -- Recommendations: To the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs -- To the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare -- To the Ministry of Social Welfare -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"The report, "'I Want To Live With My Head Held High:' Abuses in Bangladesh's Legal Recognition of Hijras", documents abuses suffered by a group of hijras, when they were forced to undergo so-called medical examinations at a hospital in Dhaka, the capital, in 2015, as part of a government employment program. The medical exams were ordered as part of the routine government hiring procedure, but absent a clear procedure to identify and respect hijras, hospital staff responded based on their own personal biases. Although a 2013 directive from the cabinet recognizes hijras as a third gender, the government has not developed rights-based procedures for changing their gender on official documents, leaving them open to abuse when they seek to assert their rights, Human Rights Watch found"--Publisher's description.
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