Mumbai, August 06: Although born in a male body, Revathi who always considered herself a woman and even underwent a sex reassignment surgery to reaffirm her sexuality has landed in an identity crisis all in the name of a driver’s license.
Her unique driver’s licence sports two names and no gender specification.
“I finally had my driving licence. The licence did not specify whether I was male or female. Instead it referred to me as ‘Revathi who is Doraisamy'”, says A Revathi whose autobiography ‘The Truth About me: A hijra life story’ has been released recently.
Born as Doraisamy, the youngest son of a lorry driver from Namakkal in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district, she went for a discreet sex change surgery in her early twenties and rechristened herself as Revathi.
–IANS