Summary:
Though she has been in Thiruvananthapuram for a year, Covid-19 has rendered her jobless.
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“Earlier, we never wanted to go outside even during the election time fearing the prying eyes and abusive words of others.
Almost everybody looked at us like a different and comic creature.
But the situation has changed now.
This time, I have confidence and courage to go to the polling station and cast my vote for the first time in the identity as a transgender,” said Kavya Thengamam, a voter from the Adoor assembly constituency in Pathanamthitta.
As per the voters’ list, the district has a total of 10,54,100 voters of which seven are transgenders.
“Though I had cast my vote in earlier assembly elections too, this assembly poll is special to me.
It is the first time I am going to cast my vote with the election ID card in which my gender is mentioned as transgender,” she said.
Though she has been in Thiruvananthapuram for a year, Covid-19 has rendered her jobless.