Read an interesting thread about the hijira from the perspective of an asian indian who was gender questioning. (desisted) He spoke about being the trans community's insensitivity and their misinterpretation of hijira. Even being called hijira by an ignorant TRA.

"Hijira cannot be understood outside of the context of the caste system." Exactly. Each of these gender constructions relies upon a distinct culture. They are very different, because social roles and norms vary from culture to culture.

Transgender activists don't care at all about these details. The ideology comes with an aggressive colonialism, spreading and coopting everything. It's not like the third gender roles of other cultures. Not really.

TRA ideology exists within its own cultural frame, and that frame is the conflict between women's movements and patriarchal norms, just as it is within the frame of the capitalist hyperpatriarchy, which has established a pattern of intracultural colonialism: invade and conquer.

TRA ideology is patriarchal intracolonialism turned towards movements that threaten capitalism/hyperpatriarchy: liberation movements and especially women's movements are specifically targeted.

It has been a longstanding pattern, to takeover and then exploit a movement by turning its focus towards goals that serve capitalism. TRA serve capitalism by shifting all cultural non-conformity into an idea of "I will feel better about being non-confirming when I fix my body."

It is a billion dollar global industry and relies on forcing a medical model of gender non-conformity, where we used to have culturally specific models. This is how the TRAs then get confused. Because the culturally specific models are obscured by an exploitative medical model.

The medical model itself is built upon flimsy evidence, again, because what we are dealing with are social and cultural fixtures. The building blocks of identity are not to be found in DNA, but in how we choose to relate to others and to the world.

The humanities of western culture understood that, until it became taboo to say so. Now we are forced to conflate two distinct forces. And in the process, we risk robbing more cultures of their unique fabric.