I just watched this tv show now. It had a very famous dancer on. She is a trans gender person. The way she spoke was so beautiful. I am awed!! She was telling us about how painful her childhood was. She was hated by all apparently, even her parents. But now that she thinks abt it, she realises that no parent could have handled something like this any differently. Everybody forced her to be a guy when every atom in her body wanted to be a girl. It didn’t matter if she’d be an ugly person or if the world would never accept her, or if she’d be tormented all her life by humans, but all that she cared abt, was that she wanted to tell the world that she is a woman.
The show had both her and her best friend. Her best friend was like her too. They shared such a great bond between them. I was almost envious. This friend has taken care of her all her life and still does. She stole money (from her parents only!!) for the dancer’s first concert coz nobody was willing to accept that these ppl could dance in concerts. Though she looks ‘different’ now and had gone through a lot in her life, she seems to be very happy now. She is such a great Baratanatyam dancer and has been teaching dance for the past 20 years.
All these years the way Tamil Cinema and pretty much everybody else had painted a different picture about these kind of people. I still honestly don’t know what/how/who these ppl are. They are always potrayed with such lowly characteristics. But today I saw these two women, who are so poignant and dignified and achieved more in life than most other ‘apparently NORMAL’ people; men and woman alike.
Kudos to them!!
All that degrading transvestites stuff happens only in Tamil Nadu. In the north they are very respected. In fact they are even called over to bless a new born baby and only then the father sees the child! !!
Comment by b474 — April 16, 2008 @ 6:36 pm