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When I look back at the work I have done in the past, particularly the sensitization seminars, workshops, discourses and lectures I have done for the legal rights of the transgender community in India, my largest listeners and audience have been students. I must have spoken to a million students in the past 20 years. Many of the students to whom I spoke during 2000-2010 and during 2010-2020 are now lawyers in courts across India and officers in the government of India, some of them are IAS officers too. I am so proud to have spread the message of acceptance, equality and compassion towards my community of transgender persons. The other day, a sub collector from Orissa called me and spoke to me about how he can help the transgender persons in the town he was posted. He was a student who has listened to my speech. I see the results of my work from my own eyes. Feeling so overwhelmed and proud. It is so good to come across many officers who remind me that I had come and spoken in the university or college where they studied. I am sure when underprivileged transgender persons come to them for help, they will sure be supportive. This picture where I am seen with a group of students was one such seminar in the American College Madurai where I spoke to a large number of students on transgender rights in 2012. #transgenderrights #queer #translivesmatter #transgenderawareness #community #DEI #inclusion #diversityandinclusion #diversityequityinclusion
