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Title: India - For the first time,transgender to anchor TV show
Post by: katia on November 03, 2007, 12:21:46 AM
India - For the first time,transgender to anchor TV show

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071101/48/6mq22.html
By IE
11/2/2007

'For the first time in the history of Indian television, a transgender will anchor a talk show on a Tamil channel, Star Vijay, titled Ippadikku Rose (Yours Rose), glamourising a gender condemned to begging and sex work.
A 28-year-old transgender, Rose, hailing from Chennai, will come on air about issues hitherto considered 'hush hush' like homosexuality, alternative sexuality, child abuse, sex abuse and generally things labelled as taboo.'