The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das is speaking on ‘Out of the closet: challenges of the LGBT in clinics and community’ in the symposium, titled ‘Transgender people: what psychiatrists should know about providing positive care’ along with Ish Garg and Samrat Singh Bhandari that is chaired by Jai Ranjan Ram and Naresh Vadlamani during the World Psychiatric Association’s Regional Congress (WPARC) 2023 at ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.