India- Life and death: A transgender picture

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Life and death: A transgender picture


Hema Vijay,August 4, 2012


http://www.deccanherald.com/content/268993/life-death-transgender-picture.html





All human beings go through trauma at some point of time or the other. But the trauma of reaching adolescence and going through a crisis that involves something as sensitive as gender is unsurpassed.

Add to this societal stigma, rejection by family and general discrimination, molestation and harassment on the streets, ridicule from an insensitive society, being beaten up by cops and turned away from jobs...most transgender persons live a tortured life.

"Right from childhood, transgender persons go through a lot of trauma.  For many of us, it becomes impossible to face life; every transgender person has at some point of time or the other thought of suicide. So many of us have killed ourselves.