Bhumika Shrestha is a transgender activist working for Blue Diamond Society and general convention member at Nepali Congress party. In the CA election of 2013, she had even run as a proportional candidate for Constituency 9 in Kathmandu, which she also won by majority. Unfortunately, later she was brought down, citing ‘technical problem’ with her citizenship.
But undeterred, she continues to work for transgender rights, and is known for her high-spiritedness, and friendly and frank nature. Below are five things many might not know about her.
The shock of which falls upon her mother, friends, political leaders, police officers and pretty much everybody who pisses her off. “One time a traffic police stopped me to check my license. My license had the photo and identity of the boy version of me, but I was driving as a girl. While I understood the officer’s confusion, I was totally enraged when he so very insensitively asked, ‘What kind of a person are you?’ It certainly was none of his business to worry about what kind of a person I was. Even when I tried to explain, he interrogated me further in the middle of the road, which was really embarrassing.
