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When your husband is a transwoman, or biological man who feels like a woman

What does a man who feels like a woman face if he is forced into marriage? And how does the woman he marries cope?

Some nights Amar, 31, sleeps wearing a woman’s nightie, light makeup, bangles and anklets. His wife tries to let him be and some times even helps him dress up in women’s clothes
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Some nights Amar, 31, sleeps wearing a woman’s nightie, light makeup, bangles and anklets. His wife tries to let him be and some times even helps him dress up in women’s clothes

Ankur Paliwal
One evening, a couple of weeks after her wedding in May 2013, 26-year-old Rani Shrivastava let out a cry as her husband, Amar, walked into the living room where she sat watching a music show on television. Amar looked different. Very different. He was dressed in a yellow and purple salwar-kameez, and sported eyeliner, red lipstick, ear rings, bangles, anklet and a wig of long black hair. He was smiling.

“I got scared,” Rani tells me as she hands me tea in her rented apartment in the Rajnagar area of Ghaziabad, a city 40 km east of Delhi. Although Amar

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