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Massachussets Institute of Technology, transgender resources.
Madhuri's Scientific Yahoo Group.
Madhuri's Orkut Profile.
Madhuri's Orkut Group
Gazal & Her Hope wih her own blog
Madeline H. Wyndzen, Ph. D, Discuss Gender Identity Disorder
Prof. Lynn Conway
Transsexual Road Map
Melanie Anne Phillips journey of TG.
Anne Vitale, Ph.D.
Harry Benzamine web page
Rebecca Anne Allison, M.D.
Anne A. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.(Transexual woman Resources)
Jennifer Reitz Journey of TG.
Nika Askini (Transition of young TG )
Susans Transgender Resources.
Gener Identity and decision making research servey
Orgnisation for transgender Care.
International Journal of Transgenderism
SOHODARI
Sohadari Foundation Tamil Blog
Laxmi's Inner Shadows
TG VOICES ...The organisation.
International Foundation for Gender Education
TRANSSUBMUTATION ..somewhere not there: poetics, prose, sounds, sights, things and other things
TRANSDADA ..poetics, time, body disruption and marginally queer solutions.
IN WORDS documents of personal struggles for Queer freedom
NIMISHA's Blog
KALKI Blog ....Sahodari Founder.
Malikas's Indian Transgender Blog.
Priyankas's Most Informative TG Page.
Rebecca Auge, Ph.D. Blog
ROSE Venkatesan, the popular anchor of Ippadikku Rose
Most Beautiful CD Radhaa.
Sunitapink Informative Page on CD/TG
Transgender Asia.
COGIATI (COmbined Gender Identity And Transsexuality Inventory).
GENDER TRAITS TEST [aka "the Bem Test"]
Cross-Gender Identity and Transsexual Transition Progress
How Male or Female Your Brain Is?
Kate Bornstein's Gender Aptitude Test
Gender your GQ (Gender Quotient).
Are You A Real Woman/Man? Gender Purity Test
What Gender Is Your Brain?
S.E.X ID find out how mind work.(BBC WORLD)
Sparklifes Gender Identity Test.
S.A.G.E (The Sex And Gender Explorer Test )
BUTCH? OR FEMME? Test yourself.
Indian Ladies Room (TG/CD Yahoo Group)
SANJANA's thecdtvbhabhisandbahusofindia -2.
SAMPOORNA
KANNAMMA's pombillaivesham · dress like a woman
Anushka's INDIAN-SISTER Group.
Kanya Manzil Yahoo Group.
transgirls links Yahoo Group
Asian Ladies Room Yahoo Group
Clean TG Fiction
Transgender Graphics and Fiction Archive
Sapphire's Place - A TransGender Fiction Archive
Crystal's Story Site
FICTIONMANIA Story Site.
SHAKTI (True Powers of a Woman)
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Interview
GENDER ......Innovative work in Art,essay about gender and sexuality in relation.
Indiana University Bloomington....GENDER STUDIES
Priyamvadha's world of dressing & passion
Virtual Makeup.
Transgendered Society sites 1018
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| Transgenders scripting success in Tamil Nadu |
| 07.02.08 (12:00 pm) [edit] |
Saturday, June 28, 2008 (Chennai) NDTV news.
Kalki is a highflying transgender IT professional. But her road to success wasn't easy. Her parents she says didn't accept her sexual orientation and forced her to take male hormone tablets. Away from home she was often a victim of sexual abuse. These factors only inspired her to dream big. Now the techie also runs a foundation for the betterment of transgenders.
''When you are successful people look up to you. When you are not its a totally different story,'' says Kalki.
Rose is the country's first transgender television anchor and has won the hearts of millions. She was once thrown out of home. But that did not stop her from acquiring an international professional degree. Her new celebrity status she says is changing mindsets.
''That would never happen earlier in the past. People would not just talk to transgenders. But now they not only talk to me, they invite me home,'' says Rose.
In another part of Chennai Priya Babu has emerged to be a successful author. She wants to develop a resource centre for the third gender.
''Education is my biggest strength and also the tamilnadu government has given us so many opportunities,'' says Priya Babu.
Transgenders have begun to script success stories in Tamil Nadu. A majority of them are still pushed into prostitution but the more vocal ones in the community are spearheading a campaign to get a transgender nominated to the parliament, state assemblies and local bodies.
**********About Kalki**********
A post graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication, Kalki came out to her parents as a Transgendered child when she was 14.
Having gone through the usual nightmares all transgendred children go through, she had the toughest times in schools and colleges where she studied. Still, she managed to finish her B.A in English followed by an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication. Currently she is pursuing her second M.A. in International Relations.
In schools, colleges and universities in India, Transgender students have a tough academic life. Many of them drop out being unable to cope with the insults, harassement and ignorance from fellow students and sometimes even the teachers. Kalki hopes to change this by presenting and conducting seminars, lectures, workshops, presentations and talks on Gender variant people in schools, colleges and Universities.
She works and lives in 2 two places. Coimbatore in Tamilnadu, and Auroville, the international township near Puducherry. In the year 2001, she brought out the first tamil magazine for the trasngendred community called 'Sahodari' and encouraged fellow sisters to write and express their thoughts. Several issues later, the magazine had to be temporarily stopped due to lack of financial support. In the year 2006, she found Sahodari Foundation through which she hopes to bring the magazine once again.
Only knowledge and education can cure the blindness called ignorance. Kalki works within her community through her writings and she works with the public especially the youth, by creating awareness on Transgender issues. She hopes to break the myths and wipe the misinformation that exist in the society about transgenders.
On the professinal side, she is an IT person working as an Independent Media Specialist. She develops web based projects. She is interested in the Film and Television Media. In future, she hopes to travel around the world and work for gender rights for woman and transwoman. Her cherished goal is to work as a cultural ambassador on behalf of India. She wants to work with the UNESCO in the UNO.
Write to her at: aurokalki@gmail.com
Her FOUNDATION:
*******WELCOME TO SAHODARI****
Sahodari Foundation is a one woman mission of Kalki. Through her foundation, she hopes to bring light to the world about the second type men and women of India. The Foundation is involved in creating awareness to the public, especially the youth, in accepting and living with gender variant people. It offers the right information, help and guidance for a better life to the Transgendered community of India through its magazine, website, seminars and workshops.
'Sahodari' means Sister. In early 2001, Kalki found the first magazine in Tamil for Transgendered Community and its name was 'Sahodari'. After 2 years, the magazine had to be stopped due to lack of financial support. The other big option to reach the youth was through the internet. Thus www.sahodari.org was born.
The website offers spiritual and psychological support for the transcommunity. It is not a place for beautification of the body. It is a place to beautify your mind.
I believe, we can create a world where we can live like angels, with dignity and peace, where we are respected and loved...
http://www.sahodari.org/
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| Who Says Transgender/crossdresser are Iliterate.(ROSE Bio) |
| 06.30.08 (8:28 pm) [edit] |
***Objective***
To be a role model for the Transgender community, realize their innate potentials and empower them.
***Education***
2001-2004: MS Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, USA
1997-2001: BE Mechanical Engineering, Sathyabama Engineering College, Chennai
1997-2001: Class 12, Sri Ramakrisha Mission Hr Sec School, Chennai
***Work expereience****
2005: American accent trainer, HCL BPO, Greams Road, Chennai
2004-'05: American accent trainer, SlashSupport, North Boag Road, Chennai
2005-'07: Web design and developer, home business
Trainer in Tamil Nadu State Aids Control Society aimed at educating the Tamil Nadu police department about the transgeder community, their rights, issues and concerns etc.
Trained a group of Counsellors working in the Juvenile homes
***Media expereience***
Host in a live show for a Tamil TV channel named Vectone TV, London for 30 shows
Appeared in CNN IBN in an exclusive interview
Articles about me published in leading dailies like the Hindu, Chennai & Daily News Analysis, Mumbai
***Awards/Recognition****
Recipient of two beauty contest titles:
Miss Sahodaran 2007
Miss Snegyitham 2007
****Hobbies****
Listening to music
Physical fitness
Watching TV & movies
Browsing the Internet
***********ROSE ***************
Ramesh Venkatesan, 28, lives with her parents in
Chennai, India. Born a man, she identifies as a
woman. But that is so unpopular in India that she
leaves her parents' house dressed as a man. Only
later does she change into women's clothes.
And yet, Ramesh Venkatesan is set to become
the first transgender talk show host in the world's
second most populous country. "Yours, Rose"
will debut on Star Vijay, a private television network
owned by News Corporation, the same
company that owns Fox TV in the United States.
"I want to break stereotypes about transgender
people through my TV show," says
Vankatesan, whose stage name is Rose.
But one of her bosses, Pradeep Milroy Peter,
head of programming at the Tamil-language network
urges caution. "We can push the envelope,
but [we] cannot afford to bang the door down.
We don't want angry demonstrators outside the
office. We will debate sexuality, but not in the
first couple of weeks. At the end of the day, my
father and my mother should be able to accept
the show and its host."
Rose studied biomedical engineering at
Louisiana State University, but returned home,
calling the U.S. "too homophobic and transphobic."
She also worked at an Indian call center,
teaching workers how to speak English like
Americans
VISIT HER AT:
http://www.close2rose.com/
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| How to Wear Saree (Practise makes perfect) |
| 06.30.08 (1:05 pm) [edit] |
I find that it is so hard when I want to wear sari because need to know the technique. Let me show you.
Step 1:
Two essential pieces of garments, that go alongwith the Sari, need to be chosen carefully to compliment the Sari.
These are:
* A petticoat - which is a waist-to-floor garment, tied tightly at the waist by a drawstring. The petticoat color should match the base sari color as closely as possible. No part of the petticoat, of course, is visible outside the Sari, after having worn it.
* A blouse - which needs to be tight-fitting and whose color needs to be chosen keeping the look of the sari in mind, can be short sleeved or sleeveless, with a variety of necklines. The blouse ends just below the bust.
Step 2:
Start wearing the sari by tucking its plain/upper end into the petticoat, at a position which is a little bit to the right of the navel. Make sure that the lower end of the sari should be touching the floor, and that the whole length of the sari comes on the left-hand side. Now wrap the sari around yourself once, with the sari now coming back in the front, on your right side.
Step 3:
Make about 5 to 7 pleats of equal width of 5 inches, starting at the tucked-in end. Gather the pleats together, neatly, ensuring that the lower edge of the pleats are even and just off the ground and that the pleats fall straight and evenly. A safety pin may be used to stop the pleats from scattering.
Step 4:
Neatly tuck the pleats into the petticoat, at the waist, slightly to the left of the navel, in such a manner that they open to your left.
Step 5:
Drape the remaining fabric around yourself once more left to right, and bring it round your hips to the front, holding the top edge of the sari.
Step 6:
Slightly raise the remaining portion of the Sari on your back, bringing it up under the right arm and over the left shoulder so that the end of the Sari falls to about the level of your knees.
The end portion thus draped, from the left shoulder onwards, is called the Pallav or the Pallu, and can be prevented from slipping off teh shoulder, by fastening it at the shoulder to the blouse with a small safety pin.
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| Why GOD,Why GOD, Me CD/TG. |
| 06.29.08 (9:17 pm) [edit] |
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One Question always come in my mind 24 hours a day,right from started to know about world, God Why? Why God why you made me very different person.
I feel very feminine right from my early childhood i like to wear frocks.Want to play with Girls,Want to Play with Dolls. But I am boy what society always called me label me for world its true if its external appearance is concerned,very normal shy boy,but what about me. I always ask question to my mind is I am really boy,or Girl.Mind always think like girl..................And I think from mind I am GIRL.......A Beautiful Girl.
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