Seminar at Pondicherry University stresses need to represent transgender community with dignity and respect in media

The Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communication, Pondicherry University, organised an educational seminar to mark the International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Speaking at the event, K. Sheethal, a transwoman who works as Healthcare Exhibitor at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College, said there were around 1, 233 transgender people living in Puducherry. She shared with the students the struggles that she had to undergo to come up in life, a release said.