An uncomfortable truth
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For once, here is an autobiography of an ordinary person. What makes The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story extraordinary is the magnitude of revelations about transvestites, a community that is quite an enigma for most of us.
The author, A Revathi, an actor and an activist based in Bangalore, comes across as a simple woman. Except, she was born a boy, Doraisamy, in a small village of Salem district. Right from his adolescent years, Doraisamy felt like a woman trapped in a man's body.