Suchitra Dey talks about the situation of being a trans lady and that how obliviousness isn’t generally happiness. Despite the fact that her mom is currently prepared to acknowledge her for her identity and not for what she needs her to be, she says, the outlook of individuals in the city needs a ton of change. Suchitra was Hiranmoy Dey before the Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) in 2007. She always felt trapped in a male body, so it was necessary for her to get the female body. She says that her physical sex and psychological sex was not in sync and therefore she did what she thought was best for herself. She felt that she was trapped in a cage and wanted to feel free. This is not a story of tragedy, but a story of hope and courage.
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“While traveling out to different countries, I have discovered the outlook about individuals from LGBTQ people group has not changed. The segments that are not presented to training (and furthermore a greater part of the informed parcel), it is hard for them to acknowledge that we are typical and a piece of the general public. From my encounters, I have seen that especially individuals matured between 50 to 70 years have an unbending outlook and they don’t care to welcome change. With a dormant mentality, they make a negative effect on youthful personalities, requesting that they practice similar conduct towards LGBTQ people group like-‘don’t converse with them’ or ‘avoid them’. Consequently, they develop with this thought we are not a piece of the general public.”
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“I feel that we live in a male dominating society and therefore feminism doesn’t come to rescue when you face troubles in reality. I was physically abused during my college days and I was a victim of gang rape and was sodomized too. I couldn’t lodge a complaint with the police because I always feared that they will either not lodge the complaint or stigmatize me by calling me a homosexual. The problem is, the victim suffers her whole life and is discarded by the society but the accused moves around freely and many discard this crime as a mistake, which is shocking.”
“Still, I feel, there is a lot of difference between being a woman and being a trans woman. I have seen that people come forward and fight for women rights now and the moment the issue of a transgender woman crops up the whole scenario changes.”- Suchitra Says.
