When we responded to her description of this incident by asking if there was anyone who had tried to help her, she replied, ‘Who would ever help me with a problem like this one?’
Sulekha’s realization that she was unsuitable for either boyhood or girlhood hardly madę her feel like a mystical third sex; on the contrary, she explains that her family was so disapproving that she ultimately had no other choice but to leave home: