Cricketers Sent Me Nude Pictures: Anaya Banger Reveals (image:instagram.com/anayabangar)
New Delhi: Recently, Anaya Bangar, the cricketer and influencer, made shocking revelation alleging that she was subjected to sexual harassment from some cricketers. Anaya, formerly known as Aryan, has undergone transformation journey and last year, she openly discussed the hormonal replacement therapy and gender-reaffirming surgery to the public. Anaya’s father Sanjay Bangar is a former India all-rounder.
During her interview with the channel Lallantop, Anaya talked about the challenging path she undertook, and narrated the instances of support and harassment she received from the cricket.
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In the interview, she was asked, “When do you get to realise that ‘I am in the wrong chosen gender?”. To which, she responded, “For me it was when I was eight or nine years old, I used to pick clothes from my mom’s cupboard and wear them. Then, I used to look into the mirror and say, ‘I am a girl. I want to be a girl.'”
Ananya then talked about the cricketing journey. She said that she played with some well known cricketers like Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Yashasvi Jaiswal. “I had to maintain secrecy about myself because dad is a well known figure. Cricket world is filled with insecurity and toxic masculinity,” she added.
When the interviewer asked how fellow cricketers reacted after gender-affirmation surgery, she replied, “There has been support and there have been some harassment as well.”
Regarding the harassment, Banger revealed: “There have been a few cricketers who randomly sent me nude pictures of them.”
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“The person used to give gaalis in front of everybody. The same person then used to come and sit beside me and ask for my photos. There was another instance, when I was in India, I told a veteran cricketer about my situation. He told me let’s go in the car. I want to sleep with you,” she recounted the distressing experience she had to undergo.
