Thiruvananthapuram: The city police did not register a case against the attack on a transgender person at Valiyathura as the victim’s family maintained that they had no complaint. The TG was bashed up by a local mob on Sunday night suspecting her to be a child abductor. They tore her blouse and tried to strip. The person identified herself as Chandana, from Nagercoil, but the mob continued attack demanding an ID proof. “Today we learnt that the victim hailed from a conservative family at Navaikulam and was identified as a man in that area. The person’s family came here after one of his relatives saw the video footage of the attack on WhatsApp,” a police officer said.
“The person was once married to a woman and got divorced because he was found impotent. He tried to bless few kids the same way they do in North India. However, some in the mob hailing from coastal hamlets were unaware of this.” Meanwhile, the transgender activist claimed that such attacks expose the insensitivity of society to humans in general. “A mob that beat up a person purely based on suspicion shows the lack of the rule of law in the state. Will the police react the same way if the victim was a woman? The shame would have been manifold if they stripped a transsexual person. The police themselves have been beating up transgender persons and framing them,” said Sreemayi, a transgender person.
