"Why can't I be addressed to as 'She', when I like being addressed so?"
"The society, as I said, has no right to meddle in setting up standards for me! Its just now that I am entitled right under Article 377, but before that, was I expected to stay celibate? I am lampooned for my queer gestures, my way of living and my interests. Why is that I am having an unrequited love for you all?! Am I not entitled to be loved and respected the same way?! "
- she lamented
Her family and comrades made her redundant, a long back, when she wasn't even aware of the outside world...
She walked, as new ways unfurled, made up her mind for menial jobs, and sated herself with scant clothes and food..
"I was vilified and traduced in the workplace.....the reverberations of their castigations still hurts my soul""
- she quivered
We have human rights activists, animal rights activists, and even environment activists. Where is your vigour gone when I can see a living being disparaged to death!!!
What about the conscious and apoplectic human rights' fanatics who have been arguing against infringement of rights? Ain't the paying heed?
Well, after being ostracized by the society, she walked further....
"I met some drunkards, they asked me to entertain them, I did so, I wanted something for my stomach!"
- she stammered
How many of us are ready to sell our dignity for the sake of our stomach?
None of us, indeed!
If you'd prefer to die instead, get ready to accept the tag of 'coward' against your name.
I am certainly not an apologist for selling one's dignity for stomach, rather want to stand against all apologists defending the hideous monsters who have left no alternative for the victims who have been pushed to breathe in this purgatory. Indeed, we are able to maintain our dignity simply because we are not subjected to these atrocities.
And the tale continues, as she gets ready the other day to raise her voice against the discrimination.
"The men accused me being insolent, buffeted me and assaulted ...But I was firm in my decision. I refused to toe the line."
"and now the world calls me an 'Eunuch' "
This is what they did to her!!!
"Its not me who is an impediment or a burden to this society, rather its them, those masqueraded monsters who deserve to be jettisoned, banished from their houses and the society. If they ought not accept their fault, then why am I blamed?. Where has the judicial system of my country gone? "
- she asked reproachfully
I couldn't answer, for my own country people have donned despise for one another..
Whilst these incidents are happening, half of us are in trance, or infused in our lives or are fighting to win a fair whack of contracts for ourselves.
This attitude of ours is certainly ominous.
Then what can be done?
Should we set for a crusade to find this anonymous aforementioned personality and commiserate, or penalize the culprits in a court?!
I don't have an answer to this question. This is a tale of every other transgender , who has been a victim of aversion for no reason.
Lets ask ourselves, why are they loathed to death, smothered because we can't see them taking in their whack of fresh air, strangulated because their act of scourging is pestering us, when they importunate our society for due respect and reverence...
"I haven't upped the ante for unaffordable opulent accoutrements, but just for my dignity, which is my birthright"
- she asserts
- Sruthi Iyer
