![]() ![]() Hence, they, through early adolescence, manifest both male and female secondary features triggered by the body producing both male and female hormones - beards and breasts and altered skeletal development. They are “cryptorchids” - born male with penises, but as they grow the deviant bone structures in their crotches, crush their testicles and prevent them from dropping and developing. ![]() Hijras, according to this medical scientist, are not “hermaphrodites” - whatever that is. My own queries to a renowned consultant urethra-genital doctor, about the hijra clans I saw in my childhood wandering around India’s streets, resulted in a different account. Irving’s fiction is appallingly graphic and may have been the recreation of some researched piece. Consider the essay in which Salman, writing about the “hijras” of India, begins with a scene from John Irving’s book A Son of the Circus in which a surgeon who is not a surgeon cuts off, without administering an anaesthetic, the penis and testicles of a voluntary male to turn him into a “hermaphrodite” or initiate him into being part of “another sex”.
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