The transsexuals in India have gone high-tech in search of their soul mates by creating their own website.
The site, a brainchild of Kalki, a well-educated transsexual-turned-social activist from Tamilnadu, is aimed at finding life partners for more than 20,000 transsexuals living in discrimination and extreme poverty in India.
Kalki and some of the transsexuals living in extreme poverty in India
"Like everywhere else in the world, we are being discriminated against in India," explains Kalki. "That’s why a lot of us turn to prostitution to earn a living."
Relating her friend's bad experience in finding possible suitors, Kalki adds, "I’ve decided to launch this website after two of my friends were rejected by other online matrimonial sites just because they are transgendered."
She claims lot of men are interested in transsexuals, but are too afraid to commit.
"Men are attracted to transsexuals and fall in love with us as much as they are attracted to biological women," Kalki says in the site www.thirunangai.net.
"In many ways, we are no different from biological women. In fact, we celebrate the women in us more than biological women do."
"It's just that we can't have biological children. But we can always adopt."
In order to protect their members, Kalki and her cohorts have set stringent selection process for their potential grooms.
"We’re looking for men who believe in equality; men who respect us and are not ashamed to introduce us to their family as their girlfriend or their wife," she concludes.
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