DONATION
“When first Smitha told her parent that she wanted to become a transgender, seeing her family’s reaction will leave you in a shock.”
“When I was born, my family was overjoyed at the birth of their son. But I never thought myself as a boy. As a child, I loved playing with girls at home instead of playing outside with boys’ group. As I grew older, I wore Maa’s saree and acted like woman in front of the mirror. Like most girls, I loved to put mehendi, rangoli and loved to grow long hair. Once my parents caught me in girl’s dress and said “you’re a boy, behave like one!” I never understood how exactly I should behave.
As I grew up, I realized I was a girl inside a boy’s body. When I couldn’t live up to expectations of my parents, they started hitting me. At family functions my relatives called me “abnormal” and mocked at me. Every person I met, asked me to behave normally, but I never knew what was normal. Thinking something was wrong with me, I ended up crying almost every single day.
One day, my parents threw me out of the house saying that brought shame to the family and called me “black dot”. No amount of crying and begging could change their minds. They closed the door on my face.
I lost my family and everything just because of my gender. What was my fault in this? What did I do to deserve this? Is it really a sin to be born a Tritiyaprakruthi? Can’t we lead a normal life? There are so many unanswered questions
“My name is Smitha, I’m Tritiyaprakruthi”
