Belgium
— To a stranger, Asha Khosla and Dhillon Khosla
may look two different personalities.
But the book, Both
Sides Now, which was released recently in the United
States, tells the story of Asha's transformation into
Dhillon -- through a sex change <http://www.dhillonkhosla.com/>.
Khosla is Belgian by
birth, but Indian by roots. His father was an Indian, who
was based in Brussels with a German wife.
The author had the moment
of epiphany of going for a sex change while in his late
20s. He was a woman then, but was dating women because he
didn't want to be with men.
"I was around 28 years
old and an ex-girlfriend of mine brought me an article in
the New Yorker. It was on interviews with men who had
been through this surgery. I gave it to the current
girlfriend that I was seeing at that time and she said,
'This is you'," recalls Dhillon Khosla, author of Both
Sides Now.
"I read the article and I
saw all these threads of my own story - why I didn't fit
in any world I had been in? Why the women I had been with
said I reminded them of their first boyfriend? Why I
couldn't be comfortable in my own skin? It all sort of
fell into place and I saw that there was a remedy as
well," Dhillon Khosla explains.
To physically become a
man, Dhillon had 15 surgeries, several complications --
including one which almost killed him. But this lawyer
based in Oakland, California, stuck it out to get to his
goal, of feeling complete. And this autobiography does
have a happy ending.
"It's all complete now
and I'm finally at home in my skin," beams
Khosla.
A release date for the
book in India has not yet been set, but one can check out
www.dhillonkhosla.com
for his story.
