Born With Beautiful Souls, Just Like Us

We are living in a society where upgrading technology is given more importance than upgrading mindset. How many of you hate being loved? Ok let me put it this way, How many of you hate being loved by your family or closed ones. I believe none of us. Every living being on this planet loves being loved. Don’t think that I am asking too many questions. Imagine you’re asked this question “How did you know you were a man or a woman?” How would you feel? I would like to leave the answer to yourself.

Born with beautiful souls just like all of us. But are slightly different from us, they try to express their feelings uniquely, by clapping their hands. Let’s dive into the topic. If you ask people in our country what they know about trans people, most of them answer that they have seen them begging near traffic signals and inside trains.

Did we ever think about the reason behind that? Directly or indirectly, we as a society are responsible for their condition. Many of them are abanded by their family and relatives. Harsh treatment from people in society leads to their bad behavior. Lack of jobs and access to education often forces them to beg. Amidst all these factors they are few trans people who chased their goals and made their ways to the mainstream, breaking all the stereotypes.

Some people are generous and polite enough to feel sympathy towards trans people, again a few among them will help trans people and a few will never do anything helpful for them. This kind of ignorance needs to be changed as soon as possible, it can be done by spreading awareness, and by giving equal opportunities to trans people.

Let’s meet a few transgender icons thriving despite social taboo.

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi:

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific at the UN. She is a transgender rights activist, star on Indian television, dancer, author of her autobiography Me Hijra Me Laxmi. Her autobiography tells the tale of the struggle she faced while striving to become who she was. She is also the founder of the ‘Kinnar Akhada’.

Gauri Sawant:

Gauri Sawant is a transgender activist who has decided to build a home for the children of sex workers, using her own patch of land, with the hope that given the right environment. Joining her hands with her old mentors and friends, she named the home as Nani ka Ghar, which means the grandmother’s home, where she hopes every child will get the love and care they deserve.

Joyita Mondal:

Joyita Mondal is a transgender activist, founder secretary of Dinajpur Notun Aalo Society(DNAS) which works primarily for the LGBTQ community in Dinajpur and enables them to access all social and economic opportunities equally. She is the first transgender judge of a Lok Adalat.

K Prithika Yashini:

K Prithika Yashini made history when she became the first transgender person in India to assume the post of a sub-inspector in Tamil Nadu state police. She fought a legal battle to be identified as ‘transgender’ on her application form to join the police force.
and the list goes on.

Here are a few myths regarding trans community, Trans people are incapable of doing significant jobs, Being a parent of a trans child is shameful and the list goes to infinity. Please break all the stereotypes and It’s time we support transgender in their struggle for identity, equality, and dignity. And one of the ways to do it is by spreading awareness about them and the issues they face. Together, we can help each other create an equal society, where every human is treated humanely.

— Tejaswi Sai