After Swapnil Shinde comes out as trans woman, Hina Khan writes a beautiful note for her
After Swapnil Shinde comes out as trans woman, Hina Khan writes a beautiful note for her
Fashion designer Swapnil Shinde came out as a trans woman recently and introduced herself as Saisha Shinde. Now, Hina Khan took to social media and praised her for having the courage to accept her identity.
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Saisha Shinde and Hina Khan have worked together in the past.
Recently, ace fashion designer Swapnil Shinde came out as a trans woman, introducing herself as Saisha Shinde on Instagram. Hina Khan, who has earlier worked with her, recently took to social media and heaped praises on the designer for having the courage to accept her identity.
On January 5, the designer came out in a note on Instagram where she shared her truth and came out as a Transwoman. In an exclusive chat with Pinkvilla, Saisha Shinde shared her struggles, future plans and more.
While she’s still trying to get the hang of walking in her brand new pair of six-inch stilettos or adjusting her bodice, Swapnil Shinde, reborn at age 39 as Saisha Shinde, appears ready to upstage all the fashionistas that she has been dressing for the past two decades.
Transgender visibility in the country reached new heights after Shinde a fashion designer known for dressing Bollywood actors such as Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and Sunny Leone came out to the world on Tuesday with a new name and a new face as a transwoman, becoming one of the first to break grounds with her trans identity in India’s pop culture sphere. With a picture of her freshly minted porcelain skin with perfectly arched brows and a delicate glance, a far cry from the heavy stubble and pompadour haircut that previously defined the Wadala-based designer, she shared a long note on social media where she spoke of her struggles with gender identity that led to “loneliness, aches and pressu
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Swapnil Shinde is now Saisha. The fashion designer took to her social media to announce that she has finally accepted herself as a transwoman.
In an exclusive interview with Bombay Times, she says, “Honestly speaking, this has been going on for over three decades. I used to always dress up in mom s clothes, hidden behind the four walls, and in bathrooms. Then came the denial. But for me, it was always there. Just the acceptance took a long time especially because I am who I am, and it was tough to accept it.”
Swapnil’s growing up years were suffocating because she was living a different reality and was pressured due to societal expectations. Later, she assumed she was gay because she was attracted to men. Finally, in her thirties she accepted to herself that she was a transwoman. That was around six years ago and since then she has been into the process of transformation. Excerpts from the interview with the designer over the struggle with gender identity