In a country where most homosexuals and transgendered people still live a life that isn't always theirs, Chennai's Malika has broken at least one psychological glass ceiling.
She'll be the first Indian to participate in the one-of-itskind beauty pageant for transgendered people, Miss International Queen, on November 4 in Pattaya, Thailand. The event is organised every year by the sex tourism haven's transsexual and transgender cabaret called the Tiffany Show Pattaya.
Born as a male child, Malika (28), has undergone four major surgeries and many medical treatments subsequently to turn into a female model. But the hotel management and catering graduate did not get any modelling assignment because she's transgendered.
Her entry into the Miss International Queen pageant therefore means a lot to her - and not because she was chosen from a field of 18 Indian hopefuls for the Pattaya extravaganza. Malika, who's also an active blogger and a member of the male sexual health NGO, Sahodaran, says it's an honour for India's transgendered community.
Malika was on a visit to Thailand where she met transgendered individuals who advised her to take a shot at the beauty pageant. She did it, and now she feels vindicated - the models who had refused to work with her, she says, actually felt threatened by her. Her only worry is that she doesn't have a sponsor yet.
The self-described "queen" and "cross-dresser" says she loves being a woman. "All I know is that I wasn't asked what sex I wanted to be when I was born. They just decided that I was to be a 'man'," she writes in her blog http:// malikatv. blogspot. com .
Malika writes that she always wanted to express "girlish feelings", "play house with a doll", and "be like mummy when I grow up, not daddy who just watches TV and grunts". And she offers beauty tips and stitching instructions on her blog to emphasise her femininity. Will Pattaya be her life's biggest moment? Watch this space.
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