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Grace Banu
Información personal
Nacimiento	distrito de Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India

Grace Banu es una activista transgénero,​​​​​ y en cuanto al sistema tradicional de castas de la India, es un Dalit, o sea un paria, un intocable.​

Banu nació como niño, aunque desde temprana edad, con claridad se sentía como mujer, y ello le ocasionó innumerables y variados inconvenientes. Cuando en el año 2008 reveló a su familia que era una mujer transgénero, fue abiertamente rechazada por ellos. En consecuencia, momentáneamente se vio obligada a suspender sus estudios, y comenzó a acercarse y a apoyarse en la comunidad transgénero, pudiendo así finalmente completar su diploma con la ayuda financiera de otras personas transgénero.​

Estudiante de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica (EEE), Grace Banu ha sido la primera persona transgénero admitida en una facultad de ingeniería en el estado de Tamil Nadu, en India.​ Y partir de 2014, también comenzó a estudiar en el Sri Krishna College of Engineering & Technology, en Coimbatore, capital del distrito del mismo nombre, también en el estado federal de Tamil Nadu.​​

Sus primeros años

Grace Banu nació y creció en el distrito de Thoothukudi, en Tamil Nadu.​

A Dalit, she says that from early in her schooldays she was not allowed to attend the regular hours of 9.30 am to 4 pm.​ She was told that in order to attend school she had to agree to come in to school at 10 am, after all the other students were in and settled, and leave at 3.30 pm before others finished. Other students were told that they would be punished if they interacted with her. This kind of untouchability, based on both her caste and gender identity, caused her to attempt suicide and give up on the idea of finishing school.​

Banu's family rejected her in 2008 when she told them of her gender identity.​

Despite financial difficulties and discrimination from classmates and teachers, Banu undertook a Diploma in Computer Engineering.​​ She was the first transgender person to be admitted to an engineering college in the state of Tamil Nadu.​

Banu struggled financially to remain in college, in part because she was not receiving any support from her family at the time. Responding to a call for help, a local businessman launched an online campaign raising funds for her to complete the course.​

Logros profesionales

After completing her Diploma with honours (95%), Banu was selected to work for a software firm when she had excelled at a campus interview. While she worked as a programmer in this firm, she quit the job due to discrimination.​

She filed a Right to Information (RTI) to find out if Anna University accepted transgender students. On finding out that they did not, she applied against their rules anyway and was given admission to a private affiliated college, Sri Krishna College of Engineering.​

Activismo

Banu believes that ultimately Reservation, dedicated places for members of different groups, is key to the uplift of transgender people. "No amount of temporary governmental and non-governmental schemes can have the transgenerational impact that reservations can have. Reservations are the only way," she says.​ She has been advocating for Dalit and transgender rights, demanding along with other transgender people for reservation based on gender identity as well as caste.​​​

Banu insists that the intersectionality of these oppressions matter. She believes that Dalits can be transphobic and that the transgender community replicates structures of caste privilege. She says that upper-caste transgender people bring Brahminism into transgender cultural, community and organising spaces. Despite their oppressions, upper-caste transgender women dominate all the positions of leadership, call the shots and define the needs for the whole community."​ Denying caste in the transgender community is like "hiding a whole pumpkin in a plate of rice," she says.​

Banu was active in voicing concerns and questioning the death of a fellow transwoman named Tara (Thara), who burned to death in Chennai.​​

Véase también

• Diversidad sexual en India
• Ley de Derechos de las Personas Trans, 2014 (India)
• Living Smile Vidya (activista transgénero en India)
• Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (activista transgénero en India)
• Aporofobia
• LGTB
• Diversidad sexual y de género
• Estar en el armario
• Familias monoparentales
• Salir del armario
• Teoría queer
• Minoría sexual
• Principios de Yogyakarta
• Principios de Yogyakarta en acción

Enlaces externos

• Tarika Banu ran away from home and became the first transgender to pass 12th exams in Tamil Nadu, sitio digital 'Your Story', 16 de mayo de 2017.

• Grace Banu-The TRANSGIRL who is fighting for herself to urge RESPECT from the so-called straight society: “But whether a person is gay or transgender or straight, it doesn’t change the fact that they are trying to lead their own life. And One should help them in doing so”, sitio digital 'Campus Vibes'.

• Pheba Mathew, Meet Tharika Banu, TN transgender woman who fought for and won a medical seat: Tharika and her mother Grace’s journey for attaining an admission in a government school to getting a college seat was not an easy one, sitio digital 'The News Minute', 9 de diciembre de 2017.