What is remarkable about Joyita Mondal from West Bengal?

Well, it is only that she is a transgender, and has achieved the unthinkable! Today, she is a judge in a Lok Adalat.

• Joyita Mondal was not ‘born’ a girl. She was a boy, born into a traditional Hindu family residing at Kolkata in West Bengal.

• Unlike other boys, he loved to wear the clothes of a girl instead, and play with dolls.

• As he grew older, the boy resorted to a ‘secret’ life. Outside the house, he wore girl’s apparel. At home, he remained a male.

• Mondal’s family knew nothing about the boy’s secret life or the verbal tortures he faced at school daily.

• After completing high school, Mondal obtained permission from his mother to go for a job at Dinajpur, a neighbouring district.

• Joyita Mondal remained there permanently as Joyita, the eunuch/hijra. She dressed as a woman, as well as sang and danced openly.

• Joyita Mondal then decided to resume her education, through correspondence. She decided to study law too.

• Soon after the National Election Commission decided to award voter cards to a category called ‘other’, Joyita obtained hers in 2010.

• Her organisation, Dinajpur Notun Alo Society, catered to the welfare of victims of human trafficking, sex workers and beggars.

• In 2011, she began counselling sessions for family members and relatives of transgender persons.

• Films and street plays served as the medium to sensitise students and teachers associated with private and government schools/colleges.

• Joyita’s intelligence and public services fetched her tremendous rewards. On July 8, 2017, a Lok Adalat appointed her as a learned judge. The office of the sub-divisional Legal Services Committee at Islampur in Dinajpur district, gave her this designation.

• This Lok Adalat is a civil court linked to Section 25 of the Legal Services Authority Act of 1987.

• Currently, Joyita is engaged in undergoing sex re-assignment surgery, in order to transform completely into a woman.

Joyita Mondal is a remarkably inspiring personality, regardless of her sexual preferences. Her ultimate aim is to return every individual’s dignity and self-respect.

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