Being strip-searched in public to prove gender identity to difficulties in finding a house: Saisha Shinde, who is a transgender woman and currently resides in London, has opened up about the struggles that her community faces both in the media and their day-to-day lives. In the latest episode of Lock Upp, Shinde shared some chilling details about how trans women are forced to strip down publicly in order prove to others their gender identity. Here are some other details that Shinde provided pertaining to her community as well as an overview of how they continue to be misrepresented (and often even persecuted) in our country today – She described how there are many transgender people who are considered ‘impure’ simply because they want to live with dignity. Not only is this insulting but it’s also incredibly dehumanizing from a society that claims to value its minority communities!
2022-04-21