Jaipur: Pooja (name changed) is a 17-year-old girl living in a village in Dungarpur District.
His family is a little different from the others.
His father Mohan (Name changed) is a member of LGBTQ + and has been ridiculed and discriminated against in the village.
About a year ago, he joined the Action of Feminist Youth Youth (Faya) and Jatan Sansthan.
Through this, he did not only accept his own father’s preference from Cross Dressing, but also ensured that the villagers accepted the same thing.
Since then, instead of being laughed at, the family can run ‘Kirana’ shop along with being able to send children to school.
“Today, I am humble to be considered a moder who has created social awareness.
This gives me great happiness that other people find inspiration in my story and have encouraged others to ask for their right to live with dignity without shame and ridicule.
Today, thanks to the courage of my family, my father interacts with his colleagues in the village with his head remains high.
And even I was pursuing a higher study in class 12 with determination “, said Pooja.
He remembered, “Nobody likes to get along with our family at one point.
We are ostracized and during celebration events, my mother is not invited to take part in any ceremony.
We live in a constant acute stress.” Then one and a half Years ago, Pooja (name changed) was connected with Faya’s activities, which was the initiative to spread awareness about sexual health and adolescent reproduction in 50 villages in the Dungarpur region.
This is where he knows that the human body is not necessarily only male or female, that gender can be liquid and that humans can have a third gender identity that is not feminine or masculine.
When the essence group began to discuss these issues openly, not only having their own awareness of widespread but others were also sensitive to this problem.
Armed with this knowledge, he began to communicate these ideas with others in his community.
The results of the Faya session are that now there are no Pooja colleagues who make fun of him and their environment in the community are enhanced.
Families have a Kirana store (Grocery / General).