Trans Children - By Natasha Rai

Now that I am comfortably settled in Canada where being trans is no big deal and
that I could live a normal life of being a girlfriend, a wife and even a mother. But whenever I think of my childhood growing up in South Asia and dreaming of being a girl still gives me a nightmare. My family's embarassment when I showed up in my sister's make up and dress at home and my dances in school drawing curiousity among my teachers and peers still hunt me. I am sure most of us relate to this experience and pride in struggle we took to finding our identity and being who we are today.

I was really touched and thought of my childhood when I watched the french movie
Ma vie en rose that I cried for days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sue1FtD3-tg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_bYqQE9Qc

I am looking forward to the release of Sudipto Chattopadhyay's forthcoming
movie Pankh starring Bipasha Basu and a new boy Maradonna. This movie is about a boy
who cross dresses to play movie roles and thinks of being a girl. Bipasha is the imaginary diva he dreams to follow and is in love with.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/41810.html

http://indiafm.co.in/index.php/2007/10/10/bipasha-basu-signs-her-first-art-house-movie-pankh/

http://movies.sulekha.com/hindi/pankh/pictures/1.htm

Recently I read the real life story of Brandon as narrated by Hanna Rosin on her article in the Atlantic magazine. It is so touchy and real that I could not help but wanted to share with all of you. Think how many of us were, are and will be like Brandons, the trans children.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children