transgender

Praveen Nath is a transman who became Kerala's first trans body builder. He talks about how he overcame several odds, including being harassed by his teachers and friends, threatened to be kicked out his parents' home, and thoughts about harming himself to emerge victorious.

Urooz Husain, a resident of Noida, speaks candidly of the journey she has undertaken in becoming a transwoman. Opening a restaurant called Street Temptations, she has broken the glass ceiling for herself and others in her community.

Dr VS Priya, a Thrissur, Kerala, native, is currently working at Sitaram Ayurveda Hospital. She shares her journey as the first transgender doctor in Kerala.

With her daily earnings from begging on the streets of Bengaluru, Latha G strives to take care of her adopted children and parents, even though she comes from a past filled with rejection.

“People are very reluctant to offer jobs to trans people. But after joining Oruma canteen, I’ve noticed that people have started seeing us with a lot more dignity.”

Rajkumari Kinnar is a 55-year-old trans woman from Jharkhand. She has single handedly raised 8 orphaned children, and spends about 75 per cent of her earnings on the poor and needy.

S Veena, a transgender from Bengaluru is ensuring that she keeps her community well fed and protected during this COVID-19 lockdown.

“Life isn’t easy for us even today, receiving regular taunts from society. Even today, my parents are ashamed when people come and tell them ‘your boy has now become a girl’ and ‘log kya kahenge’ (what will people say)," says Naaz Joshi, who recently won Miss World Diversity for the third time in a row!

From a change in the logo of the ladies' coach to India's first heritage monument with a breastfeeding room, these initiatives are making strong statements!

For him, the routine was to be much more intense, as building muscles take longer for transmen as compared to the cisgender male, who naturally can produce testosterone.