Where have Kerala's Hijras gone?
http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/11/stories/2008101155051300.htm10/11/2008
KOCHI: After a quarter century of tortured life as a woman trapped in a man's body in a Kerala village, Geeta had fled to Chennai 16 years ago.
There, a small group of Hijras took her in. They sheltered her, burned her shirt and trousers, dressed her up in a sari and blouse and gave her the present name. Eventually, they nudged her into prostitution, at that time the easiest job available to a Hijra. She hated it initially, but found comfort in the identity as a Hijra (pronounced Hijda, meaning a transsexual person) and felt secure in sari-blouse and in the company of people of her own gender.
