Beaten and thrown out of home for being transgender at 21, she refused to give up on her dream of becoming a doctor; at 31, Dr Koyyala Ruth John Paul becomes one of India’s first Dalit transgender women to earn an MD
Dr Ruth is the youngest of three siblings and grew up in Khammam. When Dr Koyyala Ruth John Paul came out to her family as a transgender woman, she says she was beaten and forced to leave home. She was in the third year of her medical course. At a time when she could have…