The Alabama legislature has passed a bill aimed at restricting access to bathrooms for transgenders based on their birth sex and banning the discussion of gender and sexual identities among younger school kids.
Sharmeen Kaur Mehra, or Sanha as she prefers being called is a professional makeup artist from Ludhiana, Punjab. In addition to freelancing, she also runs a small makeup studio at her home. However, these are not the only facets of her life. Sanha is a transgender, a term that is often substituted with derogatory ones like “hijra,” “kinnar,” or “chhakka.”