TRANS IS BEAUTIFUL....
- TIRTHANKAR DAS
- Jul 23, 2018
- 3 min read
By Tirthankar Das | 23 JULY, 2018
‘ Nature choose who will be transgender , individuals don’t choose this.’
We are living in such a brutal society where we are still unable to accept any Transgenders .
Transgenders are mainly a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.
History has been created and we all are the witnesses of the history .
Sayantan Ghosh now known as Megh Sayantan Ghosh became the first transgender lawyer who won a case at the Alipore Judges Court this February 2018.
Besides this Megh is a professional dancer and has made a dance troop named RUDRAPOLASH which is the first transgender dance group in West Bengal.
Megh Sayantan Ghosh is the first transgender lawyer who is fighting for the enrollment of Transgender category at Bar Council . Megh Sayantan Ghosh received many national awards . She received awards from Techno India and received exceptional Mother award from Women Times on Mothers Day.
Born at Sonarpur ,Sayantan started his childhood as a normal boy , he completed his schooling and passed both madhyamik examination and higher secondary examination with first division from Jadavpur Vidyapith, Kolkata .
“ From the very first day of my school I was not treated normally like every other student in the school as the female instinct was more in me than the male instinct. I used to dress up myself as a girl using my mother’s cosmetics such as kajal , lipstick.etc .My classmates and seniors used to mock me and started calling me as “Chakka , Hijrey , Meyeli , Gay “- said Sayantan Megh Ghosh.
“ I started getting attracted to same sex guys when i was in 7th grade . I got sexually harassed by my own school seniors when I was in 8th standard and none of them was punished by the school authorities as some of the faculties were also involved in that and were busy making fun out of that incident” said Megh.
Megh joined Hazra Law college in the year 2006 and passed BA LLB with First class in the year 2011 . Within 1 year i.e,in 2012 she joined Alipore Judges Court as Civil and Matrimonial lawyer. Her colleagues used to mock her in the court area but Megh did not give up and still continue to do her job as a lawyer.
“ Mr.Debobroto Chakraborty,who is senior advocate supported me and is still guiding me in my career” said Megh.
Megh got her first case in the year 2017 and won the case in the month of February 2018 and became the first transgender lawyer in India to win a case.
Being a transgender is one’s birth right , its not an identity .” Meaning of my name” Megh” is clouds that has no particular gender .Acceptance is still needed in this society as there are many transgenders who failed to overcome the situation and I want to help them in every possible way :” said Megh
National Legal Services Authority vs Union of India is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people to be a 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to transgender people, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third-gender.This judgement is a major step towards gender equality in India.Moreover, the court also held that because transgender people were treated as socially and economically backward classes, they will be granted reservations in admissions to educational institutions and jobs
Megh is thinking of doing a Dance drama based on the story of Rabindranath Tagore along with Mahabharata and Nabadurga.
Lastly “WE DONT NEED ANY SYMPATHY , WE NEED EMPATHY AND ACCEPTANCE WITH THE MAINSTREAM SOCIETY” said Megh
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