suicide

Fatima Rehna

Chennai: A 22-year-old girl committedby throwing herself from the third floor of a women's hostel building in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday after her wish to become trans-man was reportedly decried by her parents.wanted to undergo a gender re-assignment surgery to come out as a trans-man.The victim, a B.Com graduate, has been attending Kerala Public Service Commission coaching classes. She was an inmate at a hostel run by Women's Muslim Association at Panavila. Her parents Abdul Raheem and Rafiya are working in the Gulf. Her brother is also abroad while her younger sister is doing nursing course in Thiruvananthapuram.According to M Prasad, Circle Inspector of Police, Cantonment Station, Fathima resorted to the extreme step after her parents objected to her wish to undergo sex reassignment surgery.Fathima, who approached a doctor for the surgery, was advised that it cannot be done without the permission of her parents. She frequently contacted her parents over phone seeking their consent, but all in vain.The hostel authorities told Mirror that Fathima liked to dress like boys. She also had her hair trimmed. She was a ‘nalla kutti' (good child) otherwise, the source said.She went to the third floor of the hostel building around 10 am on Monday and jumped. She was immediately rushed to the hospital, but couldn’t be saved.She was staying in this hostel for the last nine months. Recently her mother came from abroad. She took Fathima home for nearly one month. Fathima returned to the hostel only a couple of weeks ago.Prasad said that Fathima has been staying in various hostels since she was a child.After her parents returned from Gulf, her body was buried on Tuesday, the sources added.