How to get your gender right on your Aadhaar card

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Because they frisked her at the airport "like she were a man", Anuprabha Das Mazumder made sure her Aadhaar card got her gender right. Here's how she fulfilled this almost impossible task...

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00:00Biologically, I was born as a male.

00:24That's why all my legal documents from my childhood were written in male.

00:33And my first name was written.

00:54When I reached Kolkata airport, I saw two queues.

01:10One for men and one for women.

01:14So I asked the security person, I am a transgender person, where should I go?

01:22He didn't even know about this term.

01:29I had to explain to him what is transgender.

01:33At that time, everyone at the airport was looking at me.

01:55Can you imagine if a cisgender woman was openly checked for metal sticks all over her body, what would happen to her?

02:25After that, I emailed the Aadhaar Authority.

02:53Two months later, I got a reply that we didn't know about this.

02:59I applied for a voter card and time card through Aadhaar.

03:21I got both.

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