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By A Revathi

We acquired stared at much. humans requested out loudly—some out of interest, others out of malice—whether we have been males or ladies or ‘number nines’ or devadasis. numerous males made daring to the touch us, on our backs, on our shoulders. a few tried to snatch our breasts. ‘Original or duplicate?’ they shouted and hooted. At such moments I felt melancholy and puzzled if there may ever be a manner for us to reside with dignity and make an honest residing. Revathi used to be born a boy, yet felt and behaved like a woman. In telling her existence tale, Revathi inspires marvellously the deep unease of being within the mistaken physique that plagued her from adolescence. To be real to herself, to flee the consistent violence visited upon her via her kin and group, the village-born Revathi ran away to Delhi to hitch a home of hijras. Her existence grew to become a huge sequence of harmful actual and emotional trips to turn into a lady and to discover love. the reality approximately Me is the unflinchingly brave and relocating autobiography of a hijra who fought ridicule, persecution and violence either inside of her domestic and out of doors to discover a lifetime of dignity.

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