The Hijra of Hindu India exemplify:

a. a gender role that tolerates a wider definition of gender than is found in our own society.
b. a gender role which defines masculinity more rigidly than our own society.
c. a gender role which defines masculinity and femininity almost identically.
d. social deviants who are discouraged in their own society.
e. a type of individual who has no actual biological sexual definition.


a

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a. True b. False

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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