Voice of the Voiceless: A Perlustration of A. Revathi’s The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story

Abstract

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one” (Beauvoir, 283). Simone de Beauvoir in the work The Second Sex evidently indicates that womanhood is something which is accomplished by a woman rather than something inherited. His composition singularizes gender from sex, indicating that, gender is a countenance of gently acquired identity. If Sex is a biological trait, Gender is a cultural and psychological facet. The driving force behind gender inequality is the social stratification. Sexual difference, as well as social structure of gender, is an integral part of Gender Identity. The third gender is always ignored, alienated and offended. The social consonance of gender specifically in Indian society is confined to male or female. The third gender is not yet included in the core of the main stream society. Virtually everyone in the society watches a transgender from the standpoint of belligerent beggars and prostitutes, but their life of darkness is barely noticeable. The rancorous environment they reside and the conditions of the trauma they undergo are abounding in endless fear and anxiety when they confront their real selves and individuality. In such combative circumstances, only a few transgenders moved to measure the ladder of success. They stood hard and persistent whenever they were rejected and humiliated.