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Image Source: Provided by the Author I met some Trans Didis on my train journey from Nagpur to Delhi. It was a 2 AC, so I was wrapped in my privilege. They sat on my side-lower berth because there wasn’t any space anywhere else. I was confused how they entered a moving train around Agra, and they were sad because they had boarded a train after another group of Trans Didis had just exited the train after collecting money from everyone. They asked me what station they got on, a

Image Source: https://share.google/VUbDkKo78hdkrBxKh [ This blog is part of a series exploring The Intersection of Love & Law ] Disclaimer: This story is a fictional re‑imagining of a conversational snippet Aditya and I overheard among a group of students in a canteen. It stayed with us and I took creative liberty to trace the psychosocial implications of such slurs. For the Reference of the Readers: The words ‘ Meethe (मीठे)’ or ‘ Meetha (मीठा )’, which translate to ‘sweetn