Nagpur: While the country celebrated the 75th Independence Day, Rajrajeshwari, formerly known as Anand, said that he celebrated the freedom from the male body with which he lived for the past 31 years.
The young man from Saeraran found “new and true identity” recently after going through the first gender assignment operation (GRS) in Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rustic Hospital, Sawangi (MEGHE), in Wardha.
While the doctor claims that many operations like that now occur in the city of Nagpur, activists who work for the welfare of the transgender community claim that it is not as easy as it is at all.
Rajrajeshwari said, “I feel reborn.
I was born as a boy but since childhood I felt that this body was not mine.
Even family members refused to accept me as who I was.” Dr.
Pradip Patil, Head of the Psychiatric Department of Hospital, Support Rajrajeshwari and managed to do surgery at the hospital.
“There are many young men who have a psychiatric problem like that.
One of the 500 adults can fall somewhere in the transgender spectrum.
But most gender divorce remains below being reported in our society,” he said.
Surgery requires a multidisciplinary approach – at least six months of observations by qualified psychiatrists, a series of plastic surgery and boring legal processes.
But not all who have received them have gender divoria and want to finish this operation just lucky Rajrajeshwari.
Activists said that government hospitals did not have such conditions and it was not affordable for them in private hospitals.
According to Anand Chandrani, the founder of Sarathi Trust, people in need in Central India prefer to go to Raipur, Delhi and there is a long wait list in Mumbai too.
“This requires a lifetime income to carry out this operation.
Many transgenders don’t have that much money,” Chandrani said.
Chandrani further said that it was a matter of life and death for these people.
“Despite approaching district collectors many times with requests to provide some support for such operations, we have nothing but the guarantee,” activists said.
Plastic surgeon Dr.
Pranam Sadawarte said that some such operations occurred and died in Nagpur in personal settings.
“This is a long process.
There is no doubt that plastic surgeons play the most important role.
Make facial changes, creating breasts and female genitals done in phase.
Furthermore, the endocrine that gives hormone therapy to bring the desired change in the body,” he said.
Surgeon Dr.
Yashwant Lamture said that such operations were carried out only in 51 hospitals throughout the country.
“It requires a super-specialization approach.
I am happy that we have done a good job in providing identity to Rajrajeshwari.
I think this operation is a milestone for a charity hospital in Central India,” he said.
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