NewKerala.com – IANS
Kathmandu – An impoverished labourer’s family in south Nepal is being stigmatised for having given birth to a child of indeterminate sex.
Madan Patel, a resident of Chhoti Fulbari village in Bara district in Nepal’s Terai plains, and his wife Jangee have become the butt of neighbours’ ridicule and contempt after giving birth to a child who has both male and female sex organs, said Blue Diamond Society (BDS), which defends gay rights in Nepal.
In the Terai plains, where illiteracy and poverty prevail, a male child is prized whereas a female child is regarded as a burden.
Stressed under the mounting social pressure, the parents are trying to bring up the child as a boy and are running from pillar to post to raise money for a sex re-assignment surgery.