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I am Joyita Review: From The World Of Discrimination To The Chair Of A Judge

It was at a very young age in school when Joyita (who then used to be Jayanta) was gang-raped by the boys in his school. They took him aside and sodomised Joyita without her consent till she bled to an endless amount of pain. When she went home and told her mother about the horrific incident, while deeply bleeding from her anal, she realised that this was the punishment she had to face for not being a cisgender; for choosing to mentally think like a woman for despite being born with the different reproductive system.

On her first day at college, when Jayita got her eyebrows done and applied lipstick while getting dressed for college. She was thrashed so hard and even electrocuted by the consent of her parents, hoping that these may be a cure for her attachment towards her abilities to act like a transgender.

Who would you blame for that? Is it not wrong that Bollywood has always treated the third gender as a section of comedy, the abnormal existence? It was only in Shyam Benegal’s Welcome to Sajjanpur where a transgender character managed to live his life without enough respect, win the votes of the people in the village and live a respectable life as an MP.

When Jayita Mondol ran away from her house several years back, …Click here to read the full story