Voicing the woman within
BAGESHREE S.
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Revathi, in her autobiography The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story, is able to look back at her traumatic life with a surprising degree of equanimity
"Listen, I am not diseased. I consider myself a woman, but I possessed the form of a man. I wanted to rid myself of that form and live as a complete woman. How can that be wrong?"
The question sounds straightforward and the answer simple when A. Revathi asks. But a hijra who is gawked at as a freak every time she steps into public space and encounters brutality every step of the way knows that it is often the simplest questions that elude answers.