The Bombay-based Life Insurance Corporation says that a eunuch called Janaki is ineligible for cover because he (the BBC uses “she” for some reason) is neither man nor woman. If I were an actuary, I’d be more worried about Janaki’s fortune-telling skills.
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They look like women in the photo, too.
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If you look at the articles on eunuchs linked at that BBC site, the first one uses neither ‘he’ nor ‘she’ throughout, and the second one says they wear women’s clothes and adopt women’s names. So the usage of ‘she’ appears to be PC, in that the BBC has Indian readers too.
Weird: on Western eunuch fetish sites, “he” is still used post-op.