India needs a few good men. Well, okay, a few good men who aren’t exactly men anymore. A controversial Indian politician named Tako Dabi, who is previously best known for endorsing a police officer’s right to drink on the job, is now pushing for a unit of the border patrol to be made up of eunuchs.
Eunuch is a pejorative term in India that categorizes real eunuchs, cross-dressers, and pre/post operative transsexuals. Dabi isn’t looking for don’t ask, don’t tell, he’s looking to start the Rainbow Berets! “Why can’t there be a separate regiment of eunuch community in our country?” he wrote in a letter to the Indian Home Minister. “This community would discharge their duties effectively on international borders if enough scope is created for them.”
India, in spite of its conservative caste system, is actually becoming progressive in terms of civil rights for trans-gender and inter-gender folks; who are often discriminated against in terms of employment, but who are also (strangely) good luck at weddings. They’ve recently earned the right to check “other” when given the choice of male or female. Hopefully next they’ll get their very own ladyboy brigade.
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