'Police call me madam, ask me to sit'

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/Police-call-me-madam-ask-me-to-sit/articleshow/6242018.cms
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
7/31/10

She tells it like it is. "If you have an extra finger, you'll get it removed. It's like that for us," says A Revathi. Her candid, sometimes shocking autobiography, "The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story" is to be released in Bangalore later this month. She worked her way through four drafts. "A woman takes nine months to produce a baby. I've worked on this book for five years."

In the process, she lays bare a reality that most Indians can only guess at, even though transgender became a popular term as long as 30 years ago to describe those whose gender identity did not mesh with the gender they were assigned at birth.