Saumya disorder... Explained in the show today - Page 3

Originally posted by: astha36

@Niharika

Thanks for replying. I'm not sure if transgenders don't see themselves as male or female. What I've read about it is that a male who identifies himself as a female. Or vice versa. Not a third gender.

Why it is called the third gender might be because male and female characteristics are defined physically and psychologically and since transgenders and intersex don't fall in either category so they are called third gender.

But afaik they do identify themselves with either or female.

Originally posted by: NiharikaMishra

I would like to peep in this topic and share my views in this case. Trans-gender, or as we call them 'kinnar' here, are those people who are not exclusively masculine or feminine.

Hence this includes all the people with undeveloped and under developed genitals who were in the process of, but couldn't fully develop into a woman or a man because of various reasons like pregnancy complications, heredity, genetic mutation etc.

If there are any bio-enthusiasts here, they'll know that all foetuses start as a female, and if they have the y chromosome, they develop the male organs.

So if there is a scale and masculinity and femininity are the two extremes to it, our typical notions call anyone a trans-gender who is not on those extreme ends but somewhere between. Earlier, even people with just hormonal issues, like men with man-b**bs or women with unusual facial hair (to name a few) were termed transgender.

Thanks to the increasing broad-mindedness, nowadays only incomplete genital formation are called so.

In Saumya's case, considering her looks, gait and behaviour, she doesn't seem to lack anything from the hormonal perspective. She is romantically attracted to Harman, which also rules out any doubts from the sexual preference perspective.

But since her family has been so obsessed with her identity, since she was born, and Nimmy has been fearing revelation on the SR itself, without anything even happening, this could be the case of incorrect or incomplete development of the "external appearance" of her feminine assets, something that is surgically correctable (probably).

I am very impressed with the makers bringing up such a topic here and I wish Saumya's identity of a transgender is handled with maturity, showing her fight with social norms and hopefully her not being forced into becoming a "perfect" female. Instead she should get accepted and dealt with like other normal people.

Originally posted by: Supervampire

You are right ... but hope cvs don't forget these lines