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Doing transgender ‘right’: Bodies, eroticism and spirituality in khwajasira work

Through a case study of khwajasiras, a community of male-to-female transgender people in Pakistan, the journal authors explain how competing and conflicting body ideals of hyper-eroticism, spirituality, and hybridity set by these regimes, allow khwajasiras to transgress the binary gender norm.