The Bombay HC allowed maintenance claims to a trans woman with gender reassignment surgery under the Domestic Violence (DV) Act, 2005. Her maintenance claim had been disputed by her spouse.

Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju, an out and proud openly-transgender doctor, shared her ordeal of being denied rental housing in Mumbai because of her gender. How can we strip someone of basic rights just because they don’t fit your perception?

Apart from Bhattacharyya, there have been 53 valid application pending in total in West Bengal region. These statistics have been presented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment before the Lok Sabha.

In a historic event recently, the transgender community carried out its first-ever rights protest on a huge scale in Pakistan. Referred to as the Khwaja Sira community, they came together and took centre stage to celebrate themselves and demand their rightful place in the country which has stigmatised and excluded them for decades.

Just as trans people are not a new population, backlashes against trans rights have a long history.

Despite having one of the largest populations of transgenders, the community continually faces an uphill task of acceptance and is often isolated. Reports of studies suggest that trans persons are subjected to social ostracization, mental, physical abuse and sexual assault at an alarming level.

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

Kai Shappley, the 10-year-old trans activist and actor testified against two transphobic bills before Texas legislators.

Previously states of West Bengal and Telangana have reserved beds for transgender people, for COVID-19 treatment.

Trans Day of Visibility, then, is an attempt, as the trans community puts it, to “give us our roses while we’re still here.”