These days, if you hear the term "third gender," you'll probably be thinking transgender people who don't neatly fit into the usual male-female binary. But when I wrote this piece, some 12 years ago, this was not so much in the news. I used the term in a very different way, to cover a different group ... of which I was a member.
Listen in to find out what that third gender is, and if you - too - can join.