Sweety Fatima-the freedom to be myself
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15
May
Sweety Fatima-the freedom to be myself
When Sweety Fatima today 27 years of age, discovered that, though she had been born a boy she felt psychologically akin to girls, she asked herself, ‘Why should I live like a boy? I feel happier being a girl.’ But her family was livid with her thinking and ordered her not to reveal her desired gender identity and to continue with her pretence, lest they lose the respect and dignity of the others in the community. Sweety Fatima decided to leave home and reached Bhubaneswar in search of her new identity. She was convinced from day one that being a transgender was a blessing and not a shame or a curse.