Dialouge with Revati

Revati is a transgender .
She is the first transgender we ever interacted with.
She is currently working as the department head in a human rights organization.
I went to meet her with an open mind. My first question to her was
HOW HAS LIFE BEEN FOR YOU TILL NOW?

She then frankly asked me if I was asking her to narrate her life story to me. And if that is the case, then she is really not enthusiastic about it, as she had repeated it over a million times by then.

So I initiated the conversation by asking her how life was for her as a child.
She got comfortable and started opening up and told me about her days in school. How she enjoyed playing and being with girls rather than boys. As she grew how she was discriminated by her peers and teachers. After a point she was discriminated where ever she went. May it be at home, school, neighbors and others. While listening to her I could really understand the hardships, torture and trauma that she had gone through. Constantly fighting against all odds had transformed her. She became mature and was aware of how she was. She is independent, courageous and determined. It really was amazing to see how she had grown. She even adopted a daughter. Her world now revolves only around her work and her daughter. I really connected to this as I share a similar relationship with my mother.