Indian transsexual Professor Manabi Bannerjee, earlier Somnath Bannerjee, is a professor and teaches in a district college in West Bengal. Once sex change was something you’d heard of in the epics. Or happening to some faceless rich who could afford the expensive surgery. Not anymore. The number of transgendered-across the social spectrum-is growing, with sex change operations prevalent widely in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and parts of Tamil Nadu. And with government-run hospitals and reputed private ones refusing to entertain such requests, quacks and quickfixers are wielding the scalpel with impunity.