Thanks to a raft of pioneering efforts, transgenders in Tamil Nadu are better off than in most other states
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Economic Times India Times/By Indulekha Aravind, ET Bureau | 27 Dec, 2015, 05.01AM IST
"When I go to other states, I'm laughed at and stared at. But that hardly happens to me here in Tamil Nadu," says Rose Venkatesan, who adds during the course of our conversation that she is not someone who will "deal with ->-bleeped-<-"."