Susan's Place Logo

News:

Since its founding in 1995 Susan's Place forums have blossomed into a truly global lifeline. To date we've delivered roughly 1.4 billion page views to hundreds of millions of unique visitors, guided more than 41,000 registered members through 1,985,081 posts and 188,474 topics across 193 boards, and—most importantly—helped save tens of thousands of lives by connecting people to vital information and support at their most vulnerable moments.

Main Menu

A hijra’s life and hard times

Started by Shana A, August 15, 2010, 07:58:55 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Shana A

August 15, 2010, 07:58:55 AM
A hijra's life and hard times
Published: Sunday, Aug 15, 2010, 3:36 IST
By Rosamma Thomas | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review_a-hijra-s-life-and-hard-times_1423509

"'Do you want me to arrange things so that you pee like women do, from below? Or as men do, from above?'
'I want to live as a woman, which is why I wanted this operation. Please make it like it is for a woman.' I did not know how women peed, but I wanted to be a woman. After two hours, I was told it was all over.'"

After that operation, done with only her lower body under anesthesia, A Revathi emerged quite "cleaned up" of her masculinity, without, as her brother would say in abuse, "her bud". And though it was terribly painful once the effect of the anesthesia wore off, she had crossed an unusual threshold, emerging from a conflicted boyhood into a less than perfect womanhood, observing the elaborate rituals of the hijra community after nirvaanam (the operation).
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
  •  
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions