印度選舉首位變性人市長

A low-caste transgender in central India has become the country's first to win civic polls and be declared mayor.

印度中部的一個低種姓的變性人成爲該國首位贏得投票的變性人，並當選了市長。

Madhu Bai Kinnar won the municipal election in Raigarh in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, beating her rival from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by more than 4,500 votes, according to the state election commission.

週日，Madhu BaiKinnar獲得了位於中部的恰蒂斯加爾邦賴家爾的市長選舉，打敗了來自莫迪的印度人民黨的競爭對手，以4500多票的優勢獲勝。

Video footage showed the 35-year-old Kinnardraped in a saree, folding her hands and greeting supporters who placed marigold garlands around her neck amid a blaze of camera flashes.

視頻顯示35歲的她戴着紗麗，雙手合十，向支持者打招呼，人們將萬壽菊的花環披在她脖子上，相機的閃光燈狂閃。

Kinnar, a member of the Dalit caste previously known as "untouchables", had been earning a living by singing and dancing on trains, the Press Trust of India reported, but she stopped when asked to represent her community.

她在種姓中屬於賤民一類，先前靠在火車上唱歌跳舞爲生，在當地人要求她代表當地社區參加競選後，她才辭了這份工作。

"People have shown faith in me. Iconsider this win as love and blessings of people for me. I'll put in my best efforts to accomplish their dreams," Kinnar told reporters after winning the election.

“人們展現出了對我的信任。我覺得是人們對我的愛和祝福纔有了我這次的勝利。我將盡我所能來完成他們的夢想，”她在贏得大選後對媒體如是說。

Kinnar's win comes nine months after India's top court ruled that transgenders be legally recognised asgender-neutral.

而在九個月前，印度高等法院宣佈在法律上承認變性者爲中性人。

Often known as "hijras" in SouthAsia, transgenders are classified as people who have had sex change operationsor who regard themselves as the opposite of their born gender.

變性人在南亞也被稱爲“海吉拉斯”，變性人指的是做了變性手術或者認爲自己的性別與出生性別相反的一類人。

They often live on the extreme fringes of India's culturally conservative society, sometimes falling into prostitution and begging.

在印度的文化保守的社會裏，他們通常是邊緣人，有時候不得不去賣淫或者乞討。