Writing autobiography is very difficult: Writer

WRITER, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq said she used to consider transgenders as aliens and not humans, but after learning about them, she became close to the community.

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Delivering the presidential remarks during the discussion on 'Revival of Literature Forms' during the 87th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelena in Mandya on Sunday, Mushtaq said she had never seen or known about the community earlier in her life and considered them as aliens and not humans.

"Whenever I used to travel in a car or walk on the road, I used to notice transgenders on the streets, but never gave much interest in them. This is because of the social environment and the training which I received during my early years. But later I came to know about them and now I have several close friends. The transgender community are now accepted as humans in the society," she said.