{"id":40082,"date":"2021-12-24T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/24\/india-first-salon-run-by-transgender-men"},"modified":"2021-12-24T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T10:00:22","slug":"its-so-liberating-indias-first-salon-run-by-transgender-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40082","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s so liberating\u2019: India\u2019s first salon run by transgender men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder Aryan Pasha wants La Beaut\u00e9 &amp; Style to be an inclusive and comfortable space, as well as tackle prejudice and provide employment<\/p>\n<p>The beauty treatments listed at the new La Beaut\u00e9 &amp; Style salon are much the same as those offered by the dozen or so other parlours that dot the traffic-heavy Dilshad Extension area of Ghaziabad, 17 miles (28km) east of Delhi. But that is where the similarity ends.<\/p>\n<p>The wall behind the reception desk is painted in rainbow colours; a mural of a trans man with flowing multicoloured locks decorates another wall; a woman wearing a sari is having her eyebrows plucked next to a trans man who is telling a stylist how he would like his hair cut.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/24\/india-first-salon-run-by-transgender-men\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder Aryan Pasha wants La Beaut\u00e9 &amp; Style to be an inclusive and comfortable space, as well as tackle prejudice and provide employmentThe beauty treatments listed at the new La Beaut\u00e9 &amp; Style salon are much the same as those offered by the do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1481,353,2460,59,53,62,78,79,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-delhi","category-discrimination-at-work","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40083,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40082\/revisions\/40083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}