About 50 transgenders in Bareilly are providing food to 100 people every day.
Tag: Transgender
Kerala gets first transgender toilet in government college
After Mysore and Bhopal, Kerala becomes the third Indian city to have a separate toilet for the transgender community. A Kerala Government college has constructed an exclusive toilet for third gender community to push to transgender rights. Toilets have always been a flashpoint for transgender rights. Earlier, the Central government[Read More…]
Transgender beaten in national capital Delhi, police watches at distance
In the national capital Delhi, a transgender is allegedly beaten by a mob in Shahpur Jat area on Monday. A passerby on the road collided with a transgender coming from the other side in the area. He took it as an offence and started beating the transgender. The incident reportedly[Read More…]
Anti-trafficking bill: Maneka apologises for calling transgenders ‘other ones’
New Delhi: Union Minister for Women and Child Development (WCD) Maneka Gandhi on Monday apologised for the remarks she made on transgenders while presenting the anti-trafficking bill in the Lok Sabha last week. I sincerely apologise for using the term ‘other ones’ during the debate on the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention,[Read More…]
Transgenders not allowed to cast vote in Pakistan
For the first time in Pakistan’s political history, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) gave the duty of observers during polling to members of the transgender community. However, on Wednesday in Lahore they were not allowed to vote and in Peshawar they were barred from entering polling stations. There are[Read More…]
Bihar likely to deploy transgender guards for women security
In order to curb down the sexual abuse against women and make the females feel safer in the city, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to deploy transgender persons as security guard. During the Lok Samvad program organised earlier this week, Social Welfare Department Principal Secretary Atul Prasad discussed[Read More…]
Assam: Third state to have transgender judge in Swati Bidhan Baruah
Assam has become the third state to have a transgender person employed as a judge in a local court. Swati Bidhan Baruah, a 26 year old Guwahati resident, has been appointed as a judge to mediate cases in Lok Adalat, becoming the first transgender judge in Assam judiciary. Baruah joined[Read More…]
SC seeks aviation ministry’s response on transgender’s job plea
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Civil Aviation Ministry on a petition by a transgender person challenging a medical board’s rejection of her job application as a cabin crew in Air India. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud[Read More…]
Kolkata’s Nitasha Biswas wins Miss Transqueen India 2017
Nitasha, a Trans woman was named the first Miss Transqueen India in Gurgaon on Sunday. The 26-year-old is currently pursuing Masters in Business Management in Kolkata. Loiloi from Manipur got the first runner-up position while Ragasya from Chennai bagged the second runner-up title. The 16 finalists were chosen after a[Read More…]
IGNOU to provide free education to transgenders on all courses
In an initiative to empower the third gender, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced that transgender students can now study any programme offered by the university free of cost. Students who want to avail this facility will have to produce an identity proof and they are eligible[Read More…]
Odisha: KISS appoints a transgender as social development officer
In an attempt to alter the stereotypes of the society, on Sunday, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) said that it had appointed a transgender as a social development officer. Sadhana Kinnar, originally known as Sadhana Mishra, hails from Keonjhar town and holds an MA degree in Social Work[Read More…]
Malaysia defends contest on how to ‘prevent’ homosexuality
On Saturday, Malaysia’s health ministry kept its decision to host a contest on how to “prevent” homosexuality and transgenderism by saying that the competition was directed at assisting teens to make better health decisions. Activists had criticised this competition by saying that it could evoke hatred and violence against lesbian,[Read More…]
World’s first Transgender doll to debut in New York
No gay or bisexual, only ‘transgenders’ have status of third gender: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday denied to modify its order from 2014 which granted transgender people the status of a third gender. The court clarified that only transgender persons come under the third gender, not gays, lesbians or bisexuals. The clarification came when the court was hearing a PIL, challenging[Read More…]