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Tamil Nadu
At a hearing, a litany of complaints from transsexual
Special Correspondent
Noorie, president, South India Positive Network, spoke of the problems that these people faced every day
CHENNAI: People belonging to the third gender had an opportunity to articulate their long litany of complaints—from being abused and stigmatised at home, to being taunted in public and harassed by the police—at a public hearing held here on Monday.
Organised by the Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women and the Tamil Nadu AIDS Solidarity Action, the hearing on transgender rights violations sought to provide such people with an opportunity to talk about their grievances and seek redress.
Noorie, president, South India Positive Network, spoke of the problems that these people faced every day.
Beginning with her own story, she highlighted the series of abuses people of her ilk faced from the moment they recognised their identities. While all the transsexual people experienced dissatisfaction with their birth sex or roles associated with the gender, this unease was exacerbated by early experiences in the family, inappropriately high hormonal levels, effecting the transition between genders and social conditioning.
Noorie said most transsexuals, or ‘aravanis,’ lived in the hope of being recognised for their unique identity as the third gender.
Thamarai Selvi of Pulianthope alleged that the doctors at the Government General Hospital here were making fun of her instead of treating her.
Swathy, a 23-year-old transgender, elaborated on the abuse she had faced in the government hospital.
Jury members, comprising K. Sampath Kumar, retired Punjab High Court judge, K.M.Ramathal, chairperson, and Qudsia Gandhi, member, State Commission for Women, P. Kalimuthu, former Director-General of Police, and Ossie Fernandes, director, HRF, listened to those who claimed sexual, physical and verbal abuse by the police. Most of them were also picked up on suspicion whenever there was a crime in the locality, including murder, representatives of transgender people said.
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