Transgender to host TV show on Star Vijay
Meher Khanna - Televisionpoint.com | Chennai
A transgender will host a 30-minute-long, weekly chat show on the rights of sexual minorities on Star Vijay that will feature transgenders telling the story of their lives.
Rose, a smart and chic transgender postgraduate in bio medical sciences, will be the anchor. The show, which is in the pre-production stage, will contain ingredients of drama, emotion and laughter and, in the bargain, serve a social cause as well.
"Previously, we produced a game show in which HIV positive women came out with their life stories driving a message to the audience not to discriminate against them. Vijay TV has always tried to knit entertainment with a social message. This is a part of that effort," sources in the channel said.
The programme will throw light on who the transgenders are and the medical reasons behind the transforma tion of a person born as a man into a woman. Apart from this, the show will have transgenders speaking about their experience of growing up and humiliation by family and the society.
Psychiatrists will be present in the show to explain queries on sexual orientation and gender disparity. The show would also have a transgender and her family narrating their story of denial and accep tance appealing to the public to accept their children who are born transgenders and not reject them.
Rose said the programme would certainly bring a change in the way people perceive her ilk because of the mass appeal of television.
"It has been my long standing dream to be a television and a movie star to prove to this world what a transgender is capable of. I never spoke about my gender at home until I completed higher education. After completing studies I had to tell my parents. After many struggles they have now accepted me," said Rose, who was called Ramesh at home.
Rose runs a website design portal and nurtures a dream to act in movies, achieve what sizzling transgender Hollywood actor Candis Cayne did to her community - fight the stigma against sexual minorities through the media and encourage other transgenders to live their identity.
A transgender will host a 30-minute-long, weekly chat show on the rights of sexual minorities on Star Vijay that will feature transgenders telling the story of their lives.
Rose, a smart and chic transgender postgraduate in bio medical sciences, will be the anchor. The show, which is in the pre-production stage, will contain ingredients of drama, emotion and laughter and, in the bargain, serve a social cause as well.
"Previously, we produced a game show in which HIV positive women came out with their life stories driving a message to the audience not to discriminate against them. Vijay TV has always tried to knit entertainment with a social message. This is a part of that effort," sources in the channel said.
The programme will throw light on who the transgenders are and the medical reasons behind the transforma tion of a person born as a man into a woman. Apart from this, the show will have transgenders speaking about their experience of growing up and humiliation by family and the society.
Psychiatrists will be present in the show to explain queries on sexual orientation and gender disparity. The show would also have a transgender and her family narrating their story of denial and accep tance appealing to the public to accept their children who are born transgenders and not reject them.
Rose said the programme would certainly bring a change in the way people perceive her ilk because of the mass appeal of television.
"It has been my long standing dream to be a television and a movie star to prove to this world what a transgender is capable of. I never spoke about my gender at home until I completed higher education. After completing studies I had to tell my parents. After many struggles they have now accepted me," said Rose, who was called Ramesh at home.
Rose runs a website design portal and nurtures a dream to act in movies, achieve what sizzling transgender Hollywood actor Candis Cayne did to her community - fight the stigma against sexual minorities through the media and encourage other transgenders to live their identity.
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