For as long as she could remember, Priyanka’s body and mind shared no synergy. The real person lay hidden in a body that she never felt was hers.
She lived with four decades of resentment, disappointment, dis-illusionment and confusion. Life was a daily challenge. Only in her forties did Priyanka undertake the steps required to change her life. It required self-analysis, courage and sacrifice.
Holding to her truth that happiness belongs to everyone but knowing that some need to fight harder for it that others, Priyanka chose radical Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS). She encountered prejudice, rage and alienation, but she also found love, support and empathy.
This is her story. It is one that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, anyone who has experienced love and loss, an absence of confidence and anyone curious about the Transgender people. She is brutally honest and reveals what she went through and shares in great detail the highs and lows of her remarkable journey.
Compassionate, funny and sometimes heartbreakingly sad this is a much-needed book. It will educate, entertain, entrance and enlighten. It has the power to change lives, societies and perceptions.
How does any parent of any child whom they love from the day they were born into this world, embrace that child’s extreme gender identity crises?
This is what Priyanka and her devout Mother came face to face with.
