Proving the famous proverb “Everything is fair in love and war”, a school teacher in the town of Deeg in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan changed his gender to marry one of his students. "I always wished to undergo surgery to change my gender. I had my first surgery in December 2019," said Aarav Kuntal, the teacher who changed his gender.
Talking to the media after marriage, Kalpana said she should have married him even if he would not have undergone the surgery. “I loved him from the beginning. Even if he had not done this surgery, I would have married him. I went along with him for the surgery,” she said.
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Aarav Kuntal, a physical education teacher at the Government Secondary School in Deeg, has undergone gender transformation surgery to become a male to marry Kalpana who is a student from his school. Kalpana is a Kabbadi player at the state level and under Aarav’s guidance she played at the national level when she was in senior secondary. She is currently an international player and is reportedly set to play in a tournament in Dubai in January 2023.
The newly wed couple told the media that they fell in love while in school but their same gender was creating trouble in their lives and so he decided to go through the surgery to change his gender. Aarav mentioned that it was difficult for him to accept his body and felt trapped in it. “I was born a girl but I always thought I was a boy,” he said.
Back in 2010, he has come across a newspaper cutting from which he got the information about gender transformation surgery and since then he intended to do it. After elaborate research and contemplation, the couple finalised Dr Narendra Kaushik of Olvec Hospital in Delhi for the surgery. Aarav’s surgery was done in three phases and after lasting for three years i was finally completed in 2021 throughout which Kalpana stood by his side.
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Both their families have accepted their marriage. Talking about his son, Aarav’s father said that his son had mentioned that he never felt like a girl and so never dressed as a girl either. He was always proactive in sports and has always dressed as a boy which his family supported as well. “My other four daughters tie Rakhi to Aarav now and their children call him ‘Mama’ (maternal uncle.”
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