Contestants compete for the Miss Trans Northeast 22 beauty pageant in Guwahati, India, Nov. 30, 2022. When India's Supreme Court handed down its landmark 2014 ruling recognizing transgender Indians as a third gender separate from males and females, the judges were in a sense affirming ideas about gender that had circulated in India for thousands of years. But public attitudes toward transgender people have been slow to change, still hewing to European ideas about sexuality introduced by 19th-century British colonial rulers. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
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