Third gender stigma and social acceptance

Although Sex and Gender seem to be closely related yet, they are different from each other. Sex is a biological given and gender is a social construct. The term Sex refers to biological status as male or female. It comprises of certain physical attributes such as sex chromosomes, sex hormones, gonads, internal reproductive structures, and external genitalia. The term Gender refers to the ways the people act or feel about themselves as men and women according to the roles constructed by the Socie