Aravanis demand to be recognized as third gender
• Gender Outsiders: Transgendered & Others
"With the growing number of problems and discrimination being faced by them (aravanis), they need an independent identity (third gender) and will move the High Court soon", P Mohana, Managing Trustee, South India Aravanigal Rights and Rehabilitation Centre (SIARRC), told reporters here on Thursday.
Besides the third gender, the aravanis, comprising persons with an imbalance of hormones, are also demanding that the Centre should legalise sex change after proper psychiatric treatment and identifying those transgenders or transexuals undergoing the change, Mohana said

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