Mumbai’s first transgender toilet in the suburbs has been lauded by the community, but also brings forth discourse on whether or not will it help in creating more inclusivity in the society
A transgender walks out of the city’s first exclusive public washroom for transgender people in Goregaon. Pic/Anurag Ahire
Nestled inside Omble garden at Aarey in Goregaon is the city’s first toilet exclusively for use by transgender people, set up by Saarthi Foundation, an NGO uplifting underprivileged people in health and education sector. The project was supported by Shiv Sena’s Jogeshwari East MLA Ravindra Waikar, Pawan Yadav, who is President of Saarthi Foundation and the first transgender advocate to practice in Maharashtra, Subhana Shaikh, Joint Secretary of Saarthi Foundation, advocates Dwivendra Dubey and Ravi Yadav. The only thing different in this Indian-style washroom is that it is exclusively for transgender people.