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Surveying Nepal’s Third Gender

Development, implementation, and analysis
February 2015

This article describes the legal and social history behind Nepal’s recognition of a third gender category on its national census and provides preliminary findings from a survey of sexual and gender minorities in Nepal. The study was published in Transgender Studies Quarterly in February 2015.

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Highlights
In 2011, Nepal became the first country in the world to include a third gender category on its national census.
Despite inclusion of a third gender category, several issues resulted in census data that were not disaggregated by all three gender options.
A survey conducted after the 2011 census sheds light on the characteristics and experiences of sexual and gender minority adults in Nepal.
Data Points
51%
of survey respondents identified as "third gender," the term used on the Nepali census

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Surveying Nepal’s Third Gender