NRI Samay's video: Meera Sanghamitra on Transgender persons and need for reunderstanding gender

Today (March 31) is International Transgender Day of visibility. Meera Sanghamitra explains the descrimination faced by the Transgenders, and explores the solutions Meera Sanghamitra was trained as a lawyer in Hyderabad and has had an abiding interest in environmental and social justice issues since college years, when, along with a few like-minded friends, she co-founded a small group called Grassroots. Between March 2008 -June, 2016, she has been associated and travelling with activist Medha Patkar and was involved full time with the Narmada Bachao Andolan understanding and engaging on an everyday basis with the democratic struggle of thousands of oustees for decentralized development; right to land, livelihood, rehabilitation, environmental justice; touching at multiple levels, the interface of the people, state and society. As a recipient of the Girish Sant Memorial Fellowship, she studied the social and environmental regulatory aspects of Thermal Power Plants in Telangana between Jan- Dec, 2017. She serves on the Governing Board of pro-people organizations like the Humsafar, Support Centre for Women (Lucknow), Bindrai Institute for Research, Study and Action (BIRSA), Ranchi and is also associated with other alliances including campaigns for judicial accountability, right to education, women's and transgender rights etc. She is a member of the Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti (THITS), is associated with the Andhra Transgender Samiti and has been an active voice in the National Campaign against the dehumanizing Transgender Bill, 2016. She is also recipient of the Gorrepati Narendranath Memorial Fellowship (2017-18) given by Centre for Equity Studies. All along, she has also been involved with various activities of the National Alliance of Peoples Movements (NAPM), in different capacities, including as a National Organizer and National Convenor.