Quite a 'fair' deal
By: Bindiya Carmeline Thomas Date: 2011-03-08 Place: Mumbai
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/mar/080311-News-Bangalore-International-Womens-Day-former-hermaphrodite-Sangma.htmThis International Women's Day, MiD DAY spoke to a former hermaphrodite with an ultimate desire to be simply accepted as a woman
The word woman has been defined and redefined across time, and 100 years after International Women's Day was first marked, MiD DAY takes a look at how the very definition of woman has evolved.
Suma, a 25-year-old human rights activist who spends her evenings tutoring school kids at her home, was born a transgender. However, she was raised as a male by her parents, who refused to acknowledge the fact that she was different.
