India's eunuchs demand access to welfare programs

KOLKATA, India (AP) — Eunuchs in India are demanding an end to discrimination against them and access to government welfare programs.

The term eunuch is used in India to describe transvestites, transsexuals and others who identify themselves as neither male nor female but as a members of a third gender.

Sobha Haldar, the secretary of a eunuch group, said around 3,000 eunuchs were …