New Delhi: A civil service aspirant since school days, this 23-year-old is perhaps the first transgender who was given the liberty of choosing a gender while applying to the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC).
S. Swapna fought several odds to write the Group-II Services examination under the category of women in Tamil Nadu on Sunday.
The landmark decision to allow Swapna to appear came after a prolonged campaign by the transgender community.
Swapna was at the centre of attention at the exam hall as lensmen kept on clicking the transgender, much to the amusement of other candidates.
However, normalcy returned after the final bell rang marking the beginning of the examination.
She received her hall ticket from the TNPSC only on November 28, after the intervention of the Madras High Court.
