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Murali Krishnan

India’s transgender population struggles with unhelpful hospitals and high costs

A group of transgender women attend an inauguration ceremony of a free dance school for transgender people in Chennai, India on 31 May, 2022. © AFP/Arun Sankar

India's transgender community faces many obstacles to accessing quality health care, especially when it comes to the costs of gender affirmation surgery.

Manisha Khera, a transgender person from Mumbai, has been saving up for several years for a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and at a later stage a sex reassignment surgery (SRS) but finds the entire procedure complex and at times, frustrating.

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