Dreams and nightmares of a transgender

[Shana A]

 Dreams and nightmares of a transgender

D.Karthikeyan

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/02/stories/2007090255340600.htm

Gender Bender: Kalki wants to become a role model for her community —

MADURAI: Gender categories have the strongest grip on contemporary culture. Transgender identities in fact transcend physical sex. In the 1990s, the postmodern understandings of sex, gender and sexuality permitted the creation of a distinctly 'Transgender identity' in which gender identity is marked by mind, rather than physical characteristics.

Transgenders today are beginning to emerge from the severe stigma to which they have been subject to in the past.