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(3) Now that I’ve put on this sari, I have to fołlow through with it. If I went along considerińg myself a man, what would be the use of wearing a woman’s sari? Now that Fve worn saris, Pve worn blouses, I’ve grown out my hair, and Pve pierced my ears, Pve become a woman so I have to live like a woman. ... When hijras come to the community, when they know ałl about themselves, they start to dance and sing and everything falls into place. Whoever feels right in his heart becomes a hijra. Whoever doesn’t feel right in his heart won’t become a hijra. It’s not like, ‘Oh, when Pm a hijra Fve become a woman and when Pm not a hijra I haven’t become a woman.’ It’s not like that. She’s put on a sari, she’s entered the society of the hijras, so her language will become that of a woman’s. Finally, she has become a hijra.