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At the recent Kashish Film Festival, I watched an absolutely brilliant movie called Chudala. It told the story of a trans man who returns to his home after years of struggling in the body of a woman. It poignantly depicted how furiously the boy’s father attempted to convince him that he was born a girl, and will remain a girl, as is the way of the world. It starkly and realistically brought to light India’s ignorance of the trans community in this country.
For over 4,000 years, India has had a community that has been waved off as being invisible for far too long. The transgender community in India is massive; almost half a million Indians identify as ‘hijra’, the name by which trans people are often recognized in India. Nevertheless, the majority of our countrymen are still ignorant of the realities of transgenders, and many of them do not understand it.
The YouTube channel TransVision, aims to aid Indians in this understanding of the transgender community in. aAA eEE Anjali is the first webseries of this channel, which the simple goal of providing ‘accurate and scientific information on Trans identities, socio-cultural and economic facets of Transgender lives in India.’ Highlighting the urgent need of Indians to understand the trans community thoroughly, the web series begins with answers to the most basic questions about transgenders - “What is your real name?”, “Is being trans a disorder?”, “Have you undergone surgery yet?” - questions that are obviously incredibly offensive, but which so many Indians do not have answers to simply because they haven’t been educated on the subject.
Rachana Mudraboyina, the director and writer of this web series, believes that “general information on gender sensitisation is very less.” She realises the need for gender education, and, with aAA eEE Anjali, she aims to do just this. Although TransVision began with its series in Telugu, Urdu and Kannada versions have quickly followed suit. We hope that through their web series, TransVision reaches out to as many Indians living in every nook and corner of this country.
Click here to read the complete report by Catch News.
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