Arya Pujari’s life so far has been punctuated by trauma. She was bullied at school, escaped sexual assault as a teenager, and humiliated by passersby due to her identity as a transgender woman.
But on November 16, Arya, 22, finally won a war she’s been waging for four years. The Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal directed the state government to include third gender as an option in application forms for all recruitments under the home department.
