Two Indian transgenders will contest state election

Chennai: It will certainly be a rarity in Indian elections if two celebrity transgenders are given seats by their respective parties to contest in the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly elections and they manage to beat their opponents.

Kalki Subramanian and Rose Venkatesan are in the opposite political camps with the former a DMK party aspirant and the latter hoping for a DMDK ticket.

Their camps may be different but their goals remain one — to work for bringing the transgender community into the mainstream and provide them a decent livelihood with suitable vocational training.