Kolkata gives India the first transgender beauty queen

Nitasha Biswas from Kolkata, created history after winning Miss Trans Queen 2017 title at a beauty pageant held in Gurgaon on 28thAugust. Nitasha, a student of St.Xaviers Kolkata, completed her management studies and moved to Delhi to pursue a degree in fashion technology.

Nitasha lost her mother at a young age, and it was her father who played both the roles. She talks very fondly of her family and says, “Initially it was tough for my father to accept that his son was going through a transformation. In fact, it impacted him so deeply that he stopped talking to me for almost seven months. That was perhaps the toughest part of my conversion – not having my family beside me.”

She added, “Many transgenders go through a lot of emotional pain and severe depression. In fact, because of not getting mainstream jobs, they often have to resort to taking up sex work. This is what needs to desperately change.”

Now Nitasha is preparing herself for the Miss International Queen contest in Thailand.

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