When I spoke to Rose Venkatesan seven years ago, she was a graceful woman but traces of Ramesh still lingered. She had then just become famous hosting a Tamil TV show. Today, after surgery, she is all woman, as I see from a dance video online. And she works as a part-time soft-skills trainer at IT company Wipro. Rose’s story is unique in India, not because she is transgender but because she is not a sex worker or a beggar, which is what most of the community is identified with. It was to change this reality that a year ago the Supreme Court recognised transsexuals and transgenders as the ‘third gender’ in what was hailed as a historic judgment. Nothing historic, however,...
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