Reportedly, the club was formed with a non-governmental organisation called TransMom which works for the welfare of the transgender community

Even though trans people and communities have had to assume the responsibility of providing supports to community members in the name of mutual aid, this can also be read as resistance.

The “legal activism in national interest” group alleged that the manual was drafted by “intellectually bankrupt leftist elements capable of traumatizing students.”

Last month, when the COVID-19 crisis posed threat to the people of the state, many transgender people came forward to fight the battle, serving as frontline workers.

For Padma Shri Manjamma Jogati, after decades of emotional and cultural hardship, the Padma Shri is a big acknowledgement. 

Ranjana Agarwal, a woman from Uttar Pradesh has decided to build a shelter home for the transgender community. She sold her jewellery for 2 lakh rupees and purchased a plot of land for the same.

Creation of separate wards will allow Transgender individuals access to medical care and attention without compromising their privacy or expression of gender identity.

Her vision is to support the transgender community in making them digitally literate & give them better opportunities.

We are a country of 130 crore. If we say that we don’t have such people in India to play that character then it’s a problem: casting director and actor Abhishek Banerjee.

A transgender friend of the couple, Anurag Maitrayee, said the ceremony was a “beautiful, emotional union of two hearts and two souls.”