The article doesn't make it entirely clear whether the people referred to as "eunuchs" are actually transgender or were castrated as children. If it's the latte

The article doesn't make it entirely clear whether the people referred to as "eunuchs" are actually transgender or were castrated as children. If it's the latter, then obviously they should not have been subjected to the treatment described, but surely ending the practice of castrating boys would represent the suppression of a cruel and abusive practice, rather than the "erasure" of a third gender?