Meet Laxmi Narayan Tripathi - the leader of a "reborn" transgender religious movement in India. Reuters is calling Tripathi a demi-god who is bringing back Hindu's "third gender." In 2014, Tripathi convinced India's Supreme Court to recognize a third gender.
Tripathi is a tattooed transgender leader and a former reality TV star, who has become icon at India’s Kumbh Mela, a huge religious festival being held on the banks of the Ganges river. Up to 150 million people are expected to attend.
The religious movement, called the Kinnar Akhada, became the first transgender group to bathe at the confluence of the holy Ganges and the Yamuna rivers on the first day of the ancient festival, traditionally reserved for reclusive Hindu priests. Many at the festival cheer Tripathi for reclaiming the lost place in Hinduism for India’s “third gender”, known as the hijras, worshipped as demi-gods for thousands of years, but ridiculed and sidelined during British colonial rule.
Sex change surgery originated in Iran. A third gender originated in India. Where did polygamy, child marriage, FGM, accepted pedophilia, bestiality and rape originate? These are all cultural norms in a variety of third world countries. These are all cultural norms we are bringing to America and the developed world. We are doing this to ourselves. Is this the country we want to become after centuries of supposedly evolving into a civilized society? I think not. Teach your children well or this is the world you will leave them.
PHOTO: Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, chief of the "Kinnar Akhara"
congregation for transgender people speaks to her followers during
"Kumbh Mela", or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, previously known as
Allahabad, India, January 16, 2019.
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