When transgender folk dancer B Manjamma Jogathi bagged the Padma Shri in 2021, it was a moment of great pride for India’s LGBTQIA+ community. Urban, English-speaking LGBTQIA+ people often reject expressions such as “woman in a man’s body” in favour of terms like ‘gender dysphoria’, ‘sex assigned at birth’ and ‘gender identity’. This book tracks the journey of one individual …
