persons and sexual minorities at the campus he adds aqsa shaikh associate professor of community medicine jamia hamdard delhi feels these are welcome steps and hopes the institute does not stop at that continuous engagement with the community and trans identifying students is needed to make the educational places truly inclusive while noting there are very few transgender students pursuing law at present aqsa says a transgender person becoming a lawyer and a judge is news this is because some of the educational institutions can be extremely transphobic spaces where trans students are named and shamed isolated and harassedcorrective steps we need to understand that the queer community is very diverse and cannot fit into a box literally best practices from across the global universities can be utilised to make our educational spaces inclusive focus should be also on schools as childrens mindsets are formed early in life aqsa says citing her own experiences as a trans medical teacher and one who has trans medical students in the college i can understand the challenges faced by our community at every step from hostels to washrooms to degree certificates it is time to embrace change