People like Kalki Subramaniam lead from the front , they are a kinetic force of peace love and humanity…whatever they have they push this agenda of making people happy beyond caste color or creed or religiosity.
The transgender motto is Sarv Dharm Ek..All Religions are One.
I have used her picture of her Facebook profile to show your charming personality and domineering spirit..she offers hope to her community , the children of a lesser god..
I was sent the article by another person who has done the maximum for the transgender cause all over the world Stephe of Androgyne Online
She sent me the link below..
Times of India, India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Worlds-first-matrimonial-site-for-transsexuals/articleshow/4937887.cms
World’s first matrimonial site for transsexuals
Insiya Amir, TNN 27 August 2009, 01:39am IST
Kalki Subramanian is young, liberated and looking for an Indian man
who is loving, compassionate, educated. Oh, and one more thing — he
should be OK with marrying a transsexual.
But Kalki isn’t leaving her hopes for a suitable boy to destiny. The
founder-director of the Sahodari foundation, that works for
transgenders, is setting up a matrimonial website for transsexual
women — the first of its kind in the world.
With the Internet matchmaking portal, to be launched on Thursday, she
also hopes to create a debate about the issues of matrimony and
adoption for transgenders. “There has to be legal clarity for
transsexuals to live a better life. We have been discriminated against
and exploited for very long”, she says.
Unlike, other dating services in the world, where transgenders are set
up with other transgenders, will give transsexual
women a chance to find a man of their dreams. Thirunangai,
incidentally, means respectable woman in Tamil.
In a country where the boundaries of sexual tolerance are shifting
daily “especially after the Delhi HC has decriminalized homosexuality
— there’s a thin line between acceptability and discrimination as far
as transgenders are concerned. Hijras supposedly have a sanctioned
place in Indian society with more than 4,00 years of recorded history.
But the estimated 2,00,000 members of the community face harassment.
“Men sexually exploit us and society discriminates against us. But we
are women too and should have the right to marry and adopt children.
Many transsexual women are already living with men. Now they can do so
openly,” says Kalki. “Most transsexuals are born men but see
themselves as women. They find it difficult to find conventional jobs
and are pushed to petty crime, begging and prostitution.”
Hijras have few rights and are not recognised by Indian law. Except
for the state of Tamil Nadu that has sanctioned special toilets — and
a database to map the population of transgenders in the state and find
out detailed demands such as ration cards and voter identity cards —
they are denied the right to vote, own property, marry and the right
to claim formal identity through any official documents such as a
passport.
But over the last few months, India has seen its first transgender
fashion model, a transgender TV presenter and even in the recent
Bollywood epic ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ a hijra, instead of being cast in the
usual stereotypical comic role, was portrayed as a trusted lieutenant
of the queen.
Which is why, says Arif Jafar, executive director of the India Naz
Foundation International, which works for policy and support on male
sexualities, the matrimonial site is a welcome move. “This site may
prove to be a good platform.”
http://sahodari.org/thirunangai/index.html
