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Is the society ready to talk about LGBTQ '?

Interacting with information and internalising it are two completely different things. While the message of gender parity and equal opportunities to all has exceptionally settled in us and become a value that we preach universally, there are some aspects of emerging societal challenges still foreign to our grain much as we might want to feign awareness.

At face value, we all appear to be aware of the initials LGBTQ yet how much we appreciate the message behind those initials is still highly in doubt. You will agree that it will take a lot more sensitisation to normalise the reality that there is a practical possibility of gender variants different from the two main ones known to us – and, that a different person could be someone we know closely.

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