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How to Treat the Trans Community: A Lesson for India from Amol Palekar’s Daayraa
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How to Treat the Trans Community: A Lesson for India from Amol Palekar’s Daayraa

Back in 1996, Amol Palekar’s Daayraa, that revolved around a love story between a transvestite and a gang-raped woman, questioned sexual identities and saw trans people as a “miracle of nature”. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, however, refuses to see the trans community in the same light.
Posted by Pranay Dewani March 19, 2016

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