The Kochi Metro, which was inaugurated this Saturday, has broken new ground in the field of gender equality, by becoming the first government project to recruit 23 transgender persons into its workforce.
This follows after Kerala became the first state in India to build a ‘Transgender Policy’ last year. But what is written into law and policy doesn’t necessarily translate into social norms. Several commuters may still take time to adjust. There may be awkwardly long stares, whispers and perhaps sniggering too.
To combat exactly this, the transgender persons in the metro workforce have opened a conversation. Watch their beautiful appeal asking only to be seen as individuals with dreams and hopes, and who only want to do their job.
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