Meet India’s First Transgender Woman Lawyer
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I was determined to enroll only as a trans woman lawyer, even if it took more than a decade.
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I was determined to enroll only as a trans woman lawyer, even if it took more than a decade.
I tell parents not to marry their daughters young. They must be educated so that they can follow their dreams and not die while giving birth.
India has experienced a 22 percent reduction in its maternal mortality rate since 2013. Here’s one major reason why.
Now everybody who rejected me wants to felicitate me, including my marital and natal family.
This is a dream come true for 65 visually-impaired girls from marginalized communities in India, who have overcome economic and social challenges to learn judo, and are now teaching others.
One of the important outcomes of this innovative intervention with religious leaders has been the involvement of men.
It is a difficult and risky job to raid a brothel and bring the culprits to court, but we were determined to continue.
“Those who once taunted me about my gender stand before me with folded hands waiting for a judgment on their case.”
As a schoolgirl she had to pick up the teacher’s shoes and stand outside the classroom. Now Sabitha Koraga is the inspirational figure in a film that in July will start being shown in government and government-aided schools.
When the World Health Assembly convenes May 18 in Geneva, public health campaigners will try to highlight something very wrong in India: the high number of poor and marginalized women still dying of preventable causes linked to childbirth.