I am confused with the character of the 3rd sex. Please somebody make it clear to me. How could it be that this works? If it does, isn’t it a disease?

It is ok to be confused about the third sex or third gender and I am so glad you asked. You know when you don’t understand something, it is easy to question it and be frightened about it. In reference to your question whether it is a disease, I would like to say that being identified as belonging to the third sex or third gender is, in fact, not a disease.

 

In the biological sense, a person belonging to the third sex is a person who is physically neither male nor female. In terms of gender, they do not necessarily identify with the heterosexual norms of society. A person belonging to the third sex physically is basically someone who does not have clearly defined or developed male or female sexual organs. It could also be that they have both male and female organs. They are generally referred to as hermaphrodites and it can occur in animals as well. (Remember that humans, too, are animals after all.) In humans, it is described as a biological malformation. With regards to the sexual identity of a person, it just means that an individual may identify sexually to being lesbian (where a woman is sexually attracted to women), gay (where a man is sexually attracted to men), bisexual (where a man or woman is attracted to both men and women), and transgendered (where a man or woman identifies as having a different sex). Sexuality can also be viewed in terms of a spectrum where you would fall on one end of the scale if you were homosexual and on the other end if you were heterosexual. If we were to measure sexuality and sexual preference along this horizontal scale, then each one of us would probably have a slightly different orientation.