We want to live as women, and we want our dignity: A Revathi

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We want to live as women, and we want our dignity: A Revathi
Published: Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010, 9:30 IST
By Madhavi Shivaprasad | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA

http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_we-want-to-live-as-women-and-we-want-our-dignity-a-revathi_1418572

"All I ask is that you accept as worthy of respect what you've all along considered unnatural and illegal. We want to live as women and if we are granted the facilities that will enable us do so, we will live as other women do," writes A Revathi, a transgender activist, in her autobiography, The Truth About Me, published by Penguin Books, India, the first of its kind to be written by one belonging to the third sex, a hijra.

The book will be launched officially in the city on August 6 at Reliance Time Out, 74, Ground Floor, Prestige Feroze building, Cunningham Road at 6.30 pm.