Trans Woman From India Travels Across The Globe To Find Her Authentic Self

CBS San Francisco

June 29, 2022

The journey to find your authentic self brought Aishani Majumdar halfway around the world as an immigrant from India who wanted to live in a place where she could find love and celebrate her South Asian heritage while also acknowledging her queer identity.

"I felt like I had landed in a land of freedom and so it was all up from here. That's the look I have in my eyes," Majumdar told KPIX 5 when looking back at photos of her college years in the Bay Area. "Since I knew the culture would never be proud of me, the only option left for me was to leave."

Majumdar says she was deeply hurt and in survival mode when she arrived to UC Berkeley as a student eager to not only begin college but stop hiding the person she truly was from the world.

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