On April 6, 2021, on behalf of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), I participated in the first-ever Transgender Summit organised by the HIV Alliance with the leadership of the Government of India through the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to share my vision on: finding a common and transparent mechanism for the successful implementation of the Transgender Act and the Rules.I outlined my contribution this way: as the Transgender Act is about health and complete well-being of transgender people, there is a need to develop a well-resourced comprehensive framework which will help all stakeholders to attend transgender issues at every stage of their life from ‘childhood to adolescence, adulthood, and old years age’ as each of these stages of life will require specific attention to different issues facing the transgenders. Therefore, a continuum of care, psychosocial support, human rights, social and legal protection are fundamentally necessary in every environment from the family level to the community level, including schooling, employment, workplace, legal and health and well-being issues including specific health interventions (medical or surgical) and civil rights’ enjoyment such as marriage, child adoption, etc.My conviction is that “half-measures are not effective and going full force is the answer under actual circumstances”, and also that “one single Ministry or Programme cannot solve this huge social challenge”, therefore let us establish a Transgender Inter-Ministerial Coordination Mechanism to develop that comprehensive framework which assigns through a division of labour clear roles and responsibilities to each key stakeholders such as the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, NACO/Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Labour to be implemented in collaboration with the transgender community and the civil society.Working through their state and district structures, under the coordination of the transgender council with the support of NACO, members of this inter-ministerial mechanism will deliver on their roles and responsibilities to ensure that the full benefits of the Transgender Act reach transgenders from childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old ages, until death.Also read: Misgendering, Sexual Violence, Harassment: What It Is To Be a Transgender Person in an Indian PrisonThe life of Ariadne Ribeiro FerreiraOn April 11, 2021, I discovered the touching short life story of one of my transgender colleagues, Ariadne Ribeiro Ferreira (Ari), who is working as community support adviser in the UNAIDS country office in Brazil, and it is as follows:As a trans woman, I have experienced the social exclusion that forcibly removed me from formal schooling as a teenager while being rejected by my family because my stepfather did not understand nor did he make any effort to understand who I am. But I turned it around, holding on to the opportunity of studying, which has always been my greatest passion, I managed to complete an undergraduate degree at the age of 25 that gave me the opportunity to start working with the most vulnerable people.Simultaneously, I continued my academic formation with my Masters and Ph.D. in Psychiatry, always motivated by my love for people and my desire to help those who were left behind in Brazil.As the vision clearly demonstrates the life and needs of Ariadne, we are certain that around the world and especially in India, many transgender people will identify themselves with these narratives. To the society and the decision makers, these narratives call for a comprehensive framework to address transgender needs and issues they are facing at every stage of their life as this will protect their human rights, rights to social protection, dignity, education, descent jobs and economic opportunities.Ariadne Ribeiro Ferreira. Photo: Author provided.It is certain that despite major challenges Ariadne has achieved her dreams. Every transgender child in Bihar or Manipur, every transgender adolescent in West Bengal or Maharashtra, every transgender adult in Manipur or Delhi, or every old transgender person in Gujarat or Odisha should also have the opportunity to do the same in a safe, healthy, and supportive environment. Dr Bilali Camara, medical epidemiologist, is UNAIDS country director for India and UNAIDS awardee for human rights defenders.Note: An earlier version of this piece erroneously mentioned the date of the summit as ‘September 6.’