SEX NO BAR The Supreme Court’s recent order recognising the transgender community as the third ...

She’s dressed in a white silk sari emblazoned with a red zari border that matches the vermillion bindi streaking across her forehead. She holds on to his hand that curls over the end of the banister. Between her and this macho jeans-and-floral-T-shirt clad young man, peering out of gentle kohled eyes, is a little boy. “My angle (sic) and darling, full happy family,” reads the photo caption on her Facebook page. The photo was uploaded on April 12, three days before the Supreme Court of India gave her the legal sanction to call herself Mr or Mrs or just as the “third gender”. In the midst of the jargon and legalese of the April 15 judgment, the court momentarily softened to describe Radhika...