LIFE is ordinarily rough for transgender people. They tend to be socially ostracized, lack education and find it difficult to get employment.
In the pandemic, life is much rougher for the community. With lockdowns taking people off the streets, and shops getting shuttered, there have been fewer streams of income and no food.
In Chennai, help came unexpectedly with the setting up of the Trans Community Kitchen by four young people even as the second wave of infections raged and the situation grew grimmer.
The Trans Community Kitchen operated from two locations in Chennai and both are now closed. . .