“I was disappointed by the Prime Minister-Prime Minister's Office of this country. I had written to him with a lot of hope and the reply from his office was very heart breaking. I want to live with dignity, I have tried four times to get a job in Air India since 2016, but being a transgender woman seem to be my biggest crime. Are we criminals, why should we always carry this stamp of being a transgender on our forehead?” twenty-seven year-old Shanavi Ponnasami’s shares her anguish.
Brought up in Tiruchendur region near Chennai, Shanavi doesn’t want to utter a single word about her childhood and past. She says that it was a horrible phase of her life when she was struggling with the imperfections of her body and the society as well. Then she pledged to prove herself. She completed engineering, took up a job, modelling assignments and went through a surgery to become a woman.
Now, she is a woman and wants to live with dignity and respect. She always dreamt of being a pilot since childhood, but could not fulfil it. Therefore, she thought of joining the crew of Air India. She saw an Air India job advertisement in the year 2016 and has been struggling to get employment there since.
25/07/18 Bhasha Singh/National Herald
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Brought up in Tiruchendur region near Chennai, Shanavi doesn’t want to utter a single word about her childhood and past. She says that it was a horrible phase of her life when she was struggling with the imperfections of her body and the society as well. Then she pledged to prove herself. She completed engineering, took up a job, modelling assignments and went through a surgery to become a woman.
Now, she is a woman and wants to live with dignity and respect. She always dreamt of being a pilot since childhood, but could not fulfil it. Therefore, she thought of joining the crew of Air India. She saw an Air India job advertisement in the year 2016 and has been struggling to get employment there since.
25/07/18 Bhasha Singh/National Herald
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