MADURAI MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNUS

MADURAI MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNUS

Sacked transsexual doc found begging in TN

Devanathan.Veerappan@timesgroup.com

Madurai: 24.11.2020 

A young doctor who graduated from the Madurai Government Medical College in 2018 has ended up begging on the streets with a group of transgenders as he was sacked from a hospital after undergoing sex change surgery.

The doctor was among a group of transgenders who were rounded up by police recently following complaints that they were begging on the streets in the city and troubling passersby.

Police inspector G Kavitha said she didn’t believe the doctor at first. “We checked her documents and spoke to doctors from Madurai Medical College, who confirmed the story. We were told that the doctor, who was a male in college, was brilliant in studies. It has been 20 days since I met her. She is now staying along with a transgender in the city,” she said.

The inspector said that after working in a city hospital as a male doctor for a year, she underwent a surgery and became a woman. As a result, she lost her job. She needs to get her certificates changed so that she can start working as a doctor again, Kavitha said.

Family disowned doc; cops setting up clinic for her

She also wants to do post-graduation, the inspector said. “We are ready to help her. After he completed his house surgency, I heard he was undergoing sex reassignment surgery. I did not know what happened after that,” dean of Madurai Medical College and Government Rajaji Hospital Dr J Sangumani told TOI.

Police and a medical lab owner are setting up a clinic for her in Madurai, they’ve got her a stethoscope and a doctor’s coat. Police sources said she was upset with all the publicity after her photo in the new coat and with the stethoscope went viral on social media.

Inspector Kavitha said the doctor’s family had disowned her because she underwent sex change surgery