{"id":12047,"date":"2019-06-10T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T06:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2019-06-10T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T06:57:12","slug":"plights-of-sexual-and-gender-minority-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/plights-of-sexual-and-gender-minority-in-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Plights of sexual and gender minority in society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rupandehi (Pahichan) June 10 – Reshan Neupane (32) was expelled from family when his third gender identity was revealed. Born in Devdha of Rupandehi was expelled from family in the early age.<\/p>\n

He was forced to severe ties with family after family members started to thrash him. In the absence of family love and care, he could not continue his study as well. Family and society did not accept his identity so he several times tried to commit suicide. Seeking the job, he travelled to Kathmandu.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was a boy but my soul was female and it was like winning a battle,\u201d he said. He also faced discrimination is Kathmandu as well so he was forced to adopt sex as a profession. He earned name under the title of Reshma Darling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no one to care me when I used to reach home late because even the fathers and mothers were not with me,\u201d he further added. Later, he started the job of director. Now, he is a popular director from LGBTI community.<\/p>\n

Now, he is active in his profession and social service. \u201cNow, I am to surprise all by my work that used to call of Chhaka in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Awantika Gharti Magar of Palpa Tanseen also suffered from physical, mental and social violance for being transgender. She was also expelled from family in early age being transgender. \u201cI used to be humiliated by people in school but I met a friend like me,\u201d she said. Now, she is advocating for the rights of sexual and gender minority.<\/p>\n

Shishir Bhattarai of Agharkhachi has similar experiences. Bhattarai was tortured by parents when they came to know about his inter-sex identity. \u201cI was not allowed to sit our friends in school. I did not get any treatment in school as well,\u201d Bhattarai said. Bhattarai is currently in Butwal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat crime do I commit being an inter-sex? Why family so that society is not accepting me,\u201d Bhattarai added. These are just representative cases, members of sexual and gender minorities are facing similar problems.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur identity is not accepted so people still call use with other derogative names,\u201d said Aanik Rana, chair of BDS Rupandei Chapter. She said everywhere only male and female\u00a0 is mentioned and they do not have rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rupandehi (Pahichan) June 10 – Reshan Neupane (32) was expelled from family when his third gender identity was revealed. Born in Devdha of Rupandehi was expelled from family in the early age.
\nHe was forced to severe ties with family after family members started to thrash him. In the absence of family love and care, he could not continue his study as well. Family and society did not accept his identity so he several times tried to commit suicide. Seeking the job, he travelled to Kathmandu.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a boy but my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,621,492,490,3],"tags":[870,502,540],"class_list":["post-12047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-news","category-opinion","category-slider","category-society","tag-inter-sex","tag-lgbti","tag-sexual-and-gender-minorities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12052,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions\/12052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}