Transgender to float Sexual Liberation Party of India

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By any stretch of imagination, this would be the world’s first — a political party floated by a transgender to advocate sexual liberation. Get ready to watch Rose Venkatesan in her next avatar. After her successful stint as a television anchor, Rose has announced her decision to float a political party. “I have decided to call it Sexual Liberation Party of India,” Rose told Deccan Chronicle.

“It is not just for transgenders, I plan to talk for sexual liberation of all human beings across the country,” she says.

Accusing the institutions of caste and religion of launching a personal affront on individual rights, Rose says that it is only natural for people to have ‘feelings of love and sex’.

“But individuals are restrained from aesthetically expressing such feelings in the name of God, caste and religion. They call it unnatural, but, to me, what is really unnatural is asking human beings to restrain their emotions. I respect their feelings to be faithful to their caste or religion. Let me be, to my
beliefs.”

Rose says marriage is a failed institution and women ‘need to be liberated from the institution which persecutes them if they explore their primitive emotions’.

Pointing to discrepancies in Article 377, Rose says the concept of morality and upholding it has not spared lawmakers either. “Morality is but a veil to the intentions of these people to protect patriarchy, caste and religion.”

Her radical ideas notwithstanding, Rose believes she could garner public support. “I want to shock them first. But, after that, they will probably realise that I am speaking the truth. I am just being brutally honest.”

Rose plans to collect like-minded people and have a general council meeting after which the party would be formed. “Right now, I am in the process of drafting a constitution and policy.”