The birth of the first child of Ziya Paval and zahadscheduled for tomorrow, has achieved great notoriety in the India for being both transgender people, and deciding to temporarily suspend Zahad’s hormonal treatment, female at birth, so that he could become pregnant before completing therapy.
A photo of the couple posted on Instagram by Paval, who identifies as a woman, showing the Zahad’s eight month old bellyattracted the congratulations of thousands of people who are waiting expectantly for the delivery, scheduled for tomorrow, according to Paval told the news agency EFE.
Paval assures that it is the first known pregnancy of a transgender man in Indiaand childbirth will require an operation due to the hormonal changes that Zahad’s body has already experienced.
The couple have lived in the southern state of Kerala for three years and both had started a hormone transitionalthough Zahad cut her off a year and a half ago out of mutual interest in bringing a life into the world.
The sympathy that the couple has received is exceptional in Indiawhere there is a great stigma towards the majority of trans people, strongly discriminated against even by their own families, which pushes many to practice prostitution or beg on the streets as their only means of subsistence.
This situation occurs despite the ancient tradition of “hijras”transsexuals or transvestites who are part of a community with a guru and bless newborns and marriages, sometimes with threats.
In an attempt to reduce this discrimination, which prevented members of this group from accessing public jobs, the Supreme Court recognized trans people as “the third gender” in a historic ruling passed in 2014.
This Indian community also faced for many years the criminalization of homosexual relations, based on a law inherited from the British Empire that was struck down in 2018.
India accounted for nearly half a million transgender people, according to the last census published in 2011, a figure that was disputed by several activists who said that the proportion was much higher.
(With information from EFE)
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Source-www.infobae.com