Akkai Padmashali, transgender rights activist, said that the state of transgenders has been worse than Dalits in the country.
“A major section of the society is not yet ready to consider us as human beings. We are fighting a long battle just so that we get the rights to use a public toilet,” she said, after being felicitated by the Ambedkar Yuva Sene for receiving the Rajyotsava Award.
Expressing displeasure over the little support that transgenders got, she said, “The highest decision-making body, Parliament, is itself not concerned about us. Where should we go then? We have failed to convince the courts also. Unless the mindsets of people change, we cannot get justice,” she said.
