Why Must We Move Towards Gender Affirmative Care


For the longest time, our society has lived in a rigid binary world of men and women and girls and boys. Today, slowly but surely the world is understanding that gender is evolving.

My introduction to this colourful world of gender took place when I started working with a CBO who worked for the LGBTQ+ rights-The Humsafar Trust (HST). In the two years that I worked with them, my perspectives of gender and sexuality evolved to another world where acceptability was obvious, rights were availed, and all the colours of the rainbowlike identities were blended to make a beautiful sky. While working at HST, I interacted with people belonging to the LGBTQ+ community, especially transgender individuals. I learnt that gender is a spectrum, and within, there are people who identify as transgender – individuals whose gender identity is different from the sex assigned at birth . The feeling of non-alignment between the gender and sex assigned at birth is termed as “Gender Dysphoria”. However, it is not necessary that every trans individual experiences this. There is more than one way to learn that your gender expression/identity does not match with the sex assigned at birth. An individual may love wearing a dress, a tuxedo as well as gender neutral clothes while identifying with “he” or/and “she” pronouns. While interacting with them I learnt about their struggles with acceptance in the outside rigid world and within themselves, discriminations faced by them daily and injustices towards their rights.


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