Interesting .. oh yea, I forgot ... a lot of the western trains people like bringing up the Hijra as an example of trains before modern western LGBTQism .. but that's really disingenuous. The Hijra are more like the Bacha bazi of Afghanistan, in the sense they're pushed and/or sold into it by the poor. It's not "trans," but was a way to keep clearly gay teens/men from getting killed; and it's been westernized into an even weirder thing.

This was a really good (and tragic) podcast episode about it:

https://podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/trans-ideology-in-india-vaishnavi-sundar-maiden-mother/id1671451793?i=1000623568681