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.Â
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.”
On Saturday, 15 couples from the transgender community got married in a mass wedding ceremony in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. It was the first time that such an event was organised in the country which witnessed so many people from the transgender community get hitched. The event was conceived by a Raipur-based transgender and social activist Vidya Rajput and her team. […]
The morning newspaper that fills itself with bleak and foggy hope for future might go bad with the morning cuppa. However, stories of actual struggles, achievements of the well deserved and a few heart-melting tales often make their way to keep that little fire ignited. S Gayathri, a 26-year-old transgender woman recently opened “Nangai Tiffin […]
After calling trangender people “the other ones” in the Lok Sabha during a debate on including information about human trafficking in school textbooks, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi today apologized for her “lack of knowledge”. But is this Twitter apology enough? Shouldn’t the Honourable minister know better than that? LGBTQ is such a […]
