In A First For India, Manipur Gets All Transgender Football Team
“Other players should also come out so that we can compete, improvise ourselves and create a strong Transgender Team in India,”
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So Now You Know Is Heartbreaking Yet Endearing: An Excerpt
Read an excerpt from Vivek Tejuja’s book So Now You Know, which is a memoir about growing up gay in India.
Apsara Reddy Asks for Apology from K’taka Min for Transsexuals Remark
The Indian National Congress appointed Apsara Reddy as the national general secretary of its women’s wing on January 8, the All India Mahila Congress.
Stop calling it a choice: Biological factors drive homosexuality
The new finding is consistent with multiple earlier studies of twins that indicated same-sex attraction is a heritable trait.
Victoria’s Secret Casts First Openly Transgender Woman As A Model
In a landmark move, in a first, Victoria’s Secret has cast an openly transgender woman and hired the Brazilian model Valentina Sampaio for a catalog photo shoot, her agent Erio Zanon said.
Sanjana Singh: First Transgender Person In MP To Get A Govt. Job
In a first for Madhya Pradesh, Sanjana Singh, 36, a transgender person, recently took over the responsibilities as the personal secretary to the director of social justice and disabled persons welfare in the state. Krishna Gopal Tiwari, Director, Department of Social Justice and Disabled Welfare (DSJDW), Madhya Pradesh, made the appointed on March 1 2019. Sanjana’s appointment […]
Trans Athletes Row: Navratilova Slammed For ‘Homophobic Comments’
“It’s insane and it’s cheating,” said tennis legend Martina Navratilova on transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. Making her views clear on the subject, Navratilova said that transgender women shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports. After the controversial comment, many transgender sportswomen hit back at the veteran player. A US-based organisation, Athlete Ally, that campaigns […]
A Transgender Woman Priest Beheaded In Tamil Nadu Temple
The mutilated body of a 38-year-old transgender woman priest was found inside the sanctum of a temple on Friday, 15 February, in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi, reported The News Minute. The deceased has been identified as Rajathi, a Bharatnatyam dancer and priest. Police reports claim that her decapitated head was left outside of the Mariamman temple she […]
On Valentine’s Day, Man Marries Transgender Person In Madhya Pradesh
Love knows no boundaries. Proving these words right, a Madhya Pradesh man showed his affection for the love of his life and married his transgender beloved on Valentine’s Day. The groom’s family opposed the relationship but Junaid Khan rebelled against everything to tie the knot. Junaid, the 30-year-old groom from Indore, didn’t have his family’s backing but […]
Tenzin Mariko, The Monk Who Became Tibet’s First Transgender Model
A former Buddhist monk, Tenzin Mariko is Tibet’s first transgender model and has taken the internet by storm. Tenzin, whose birth name was Tenzin Ugen, was born male and came in India in the 1990s with a family of six brothers to settle down in Bir, Himachal Pradesh, reported the Times of India. While Tenzin spent years […]
