Transgenders  

1049 senior voters aged between 100 to 120 years old are keen to vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Prayagraj has a total of 46,64,519 comprising 25,27,676 men, 21,36,224 women and 619 transgenders individuals.

Transgenders in Mumbai are coming forward to help fellow citizens by distributing rations to the needy and necessitous  

The Chhattisgarh police have recruited transgenders as constables 

20 transgenders from Rajasthan have donated lakhs of rupees towards the construction of Ram temple 

 In a move that will go a long way in accommodating transgenders into the mainstream, the Bihar police has revealed its plan of recruiting them in its force
 

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

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 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.

In Kerala, a total of 2,61,51,534 voters will exercise their right to vote in the Lok Sabha polls. Among them 1,34,66,521 are women, 1,26,84,839 men and 174 are transgenders.

 

The Jammu parliamentary seat has 20,05,730 voters, including 9,64,834 women and 20 transgenders, officials said, adding 2,740 polling stations, including dozens near the LoC and the International Border (IB), have been set up for the polling

 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.

This is about 8.43 crore more voters than what the 2014 general election had witnessed.

 

 

Retired Justices S Siri Jagan and PR Raman, appointed by the Kerala high court, investigated the matter and found that there were no issues with transwomen visiting Sabarimala.