Transgender Community  

Facing social discrimination and financial hardship, Kaveri became Karnataka's first transgender auto driver, building a better life through self-employment. 

Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana gives the transgender community chances for integration and self-reliance by launching the "Sweekar" food truck project in Chandigarh.
 

Ekta was originally born as a male with the name ‘Virendra.’ However, she could never identify as a man. She was born in Lakhimpur and did her graduation from there. Due to the lack of support from her family, she made the decision to leave her home. Ekta established an NGO called ‘Ekta Seva Sansthan,’ aimed at providing support and services not only to the transgender community but also to others in need.

The president of the trust Krishna Mohan Mishra told media, that this is the first university in the country where members of the transgender community will be able to get education and the process has already been initiated.

The Kerala Social Justice Department has constructed a shelter home named Thanal for the members of the transgender community in the state. 

 

Along with it, compulsion to get certificate from district screening committee to be acknowledged as a transgender, has also been struck out.

Tahirah Ayeez and Theertha Sarvika had to quit their job as they revealed their identity to the public. After this incident, the computer science engineer and the literature student together thought of inventing something of their own for the benefit of the transgender community people (LGBT) in Kerala. 
 

Ruchimudra is all set to start its journey in Kochi, Kerala. Ruchimudra will be the first hotel in the state to be started by the transgender community

 Transgenders have come out in protest in Tamil Nadu against Vijay Sethupathi for portraying them in a bad light in his latest film Super Deluxe.

The body of the transgender was identified by the members of the transgender community in Kozhikode, Kerala. The deceased is identified as Shalu, a native of Mysuru, Karnataka, who had been staying at Alakode in Kannur.
 

Bharathi Kannamma, a member of the transgender community in Tamil Nadu, filed her nomination dressed as the Goddess in town - Madurai Meenakshi - for the upcoming Lok Sabha election
 

According to reports, there are around 15,000 transgender people living in Assam and the names of 503 were included in the draft electoral rolls in the state. The revised policy is intended for the welfare of the transgender community in the state

For the first time in the history of Kerala, Riya Isha presented a folk dance representing the transgender community in the arts Calicut University C-zone festival. 
 

Narthaki Nataraj, a renowned dancer from Tamil Nadu, is now the first person from the transgender community to be honoured with the Padma Shri. She has trained under Tanjore Shri K P Kittappa Pillai.