India’s transgender community celebrates victory, but needs more Al Jazeera English
Bangalore, India – Born in the late 1990s to a middle-class family in Bangalore, Jeeva M had always felt trapped in the wrong body. “It was the girl I was in love with in my first year of [junior college] who made me come out. She made me realise I’m a man – I knew this, but she helped me accept,” he told Al Jazeera. Jeeva M, now 20, was 18 when he fell in love. The girl thought he was joking about his transition, but wanted to remain friends. His anxiety rose over the rejection and sense of not belonging in his body – he was born female, and he soon became suicidal and quit school. There a…