transgender awareness campaign "I Am Not a Hijra" campaign A 2016 social media campaign by Transgender India which intended to separate transgender persons stigma from the cultural stigma often associated with hijra on the Indian subcontinent. Reactions to the campaign within the trans and hijra communities were divisive. Activist Rōmal Lāisram summarized the arguments made by the campaign and its detractors by saying: "While I am totally for the non-homogenising of the trans experience and I'm constantly trying to bring other trans identities to the forefront (especially since the Hijra community is not native to Karnātaka, TN, Kerala or Andhra Pradesh)... I'm not too sure such negative stereotyping of the Hijra community (or the term) is called for. Can there never be a middle ground in this movement? Does every identity have to claim its space only by defaming the other?"