Face book campaign - Intervention

We wanted people’s opinions on transgenders and if they would be comfortable with the presence of transgenders in their vicinity.
What better way than, on a social networking site! Facebook it is.
We asked various questions to people from different age groups ranging from 18-50.
We wanted to question ourselves on an everyday level.

We asked them questions like:

-Would you keep a transgender (hijra) as your domestic help?
-Are you friends with a transgender (hijra)? Would you mind being?
- Would you feel comfortable with your neighbor being transgender (hijra)?
- How would you react to your child’s teacher being transgender (hijra)?

We got a lot of positive responses from people:-

A lot of people said they would have no problems if a trans-gender was their neighbour.

People said they would be concerned about the teacher being a good one and whether their child was being taught properly.



The criteria applied to for the transgender would be the same as for the current house-help. They would not discriminate on the basis of gender, colour, religion and others.






Our take:
After going through a basket full of responses we thought we should take it one step forward.
We decided to invite Snehaprabha and Sunil to college and see how the Srishti community interacted with them. We wanted to see whether the community become one and the transgenders the “other”.