According to a Kerala professor, women wearing jeans bear transgender or autistic children, as it degrades their womanhood. During a counselling session, he said, “A woman who dresses up like a man. What will be the character of the child this woman gives birth to? The name of these children is ‘transgender’ or ‘napumsakam’. Hijra. […]

Temple authorities tend to be highly patriarchal in the cause of ‘maintaining tradition’. But traditions are often unfair.