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Chandrasena’s success enables her to get first-rate medical care. She started getting hair removal treatments in 2009; the facial laser treatment she undergoes every six months costs about 6,000 rupees ($ 45), Chandrasena says. She also spends about 39,000 rupees ($ 300) for each four-month supply of
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A third gendered person explained, "It’s very hard, in reality. It’s quite alright for the posher
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Tamil; peṇ ‘woman,’ peṇṭ u ‘woman, wife,’ peṇṭ an, pe ṇṭ akan, pe ṇṭ akam ‘hermaphrodite, eunuch,’ pe ṇṇ an ‘effeminate man,’ p ēṭ i ‘hermaphrodite’; Malayalam pe ṇ ‘a female, especially a female child, girl,’ pe ṇṇ an ‘effeminate’; Kannaḍa pe ṇ, pe ṇṇ u, pe ṇḍ a ‘female, woman,’ pe ṇ tana ‘state of
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Human Rights Watch stated that the third-gender people were not protected by the legal system of Sri Lanka. It called on the parliament to decriminalize being third gender by repelling three laws; Sections 365 and 365A of the Sri Lankan Penal Code, and the
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