Transgender  

 The government is set to launch a simplified certification process to provide identity cards and special homes to transgenders

In an unprecedented event, 42 transgender persons have applied as candidates for the combined competitive (preliminary) examination (CCE), 2020, conducted by Assam Public Service Commission (APSC)

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to set up a transgender welfare board under the state’s social welfare department
 

Union home ministry has sought comments from Central Armed Police Forces on the issue of inducting Transgender officers in paramilitary forces 

'Imaanfest: Muslim Pride' on April 11 to celebrate gay and transgender members of the Muslim community

Meet Nithu, who fought against all odds to achieve her dreams. Though she faced huge criticism and hardships when she decided to change her identity, she battled it all. Initially her family failed to accept her identity crisis but later accepted her. She's now rearing to go at Miss International Queen 2020, a beauty pageant for transgenders and make India proud.

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.

Today on World Television Day, let’s take a look at how Padmini Prakash, India’s first transgender newsreader, broke gender stereotype to become a popular face in Tamil Nadu and a prominent voice for the neglected community.

Key bills are expected to be tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament that begins today. Ahead of the commencement of the Winter Session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended an all-party leaders meeting, where he said that the government will seek to work together will all parties in a constructive manner to take up all pending legislative work.

The Kerala government has sanctioned Rs 23.34 lakh to help Adam Harry, a transgender, pursue a three-year course at the Rajiv Gandhi Academy for Aviation Technology in Thiruvananthapuram
 

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

 

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 provides a mechanism for social, economic and educational empowerment.
 

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

Avinshu had posted on Facebook stating though he looked like a boy, he felt, walked and talked like a girl. “This is not acceptable in India and that is why I am committing suicide,” he had posted.
 

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.