Zofeen Ebrahim

MEXICO CITY , Aug 7 2008 (IPS) – Dealing with transgenders (TGs) can be confusing. Even the organisers of the 17th International AIDS Conference underway in this city failed to accommodate the third gender by providing them separate toilets.

A stall in the Global Village. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS

I went to the male toilet only to be told I should go to the female one, where again I was told to try the male one! Agniva Lahiri, 28, expressed her indignation while talking with IPS at the Global Village the most happening and animated plac…