The court asserted that the person had ‘the right to wander about or associate with like-minded people and cannot be compelled to be at his parental home’.
If Kerala Public Service Commission's proposition gets a nod from the policymakers, amendments to Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958, will have to be undertaken in order to identify posts where transgender candidates can be placed.
Once established, these co-operative societies will be the first in the country which will exclusively work towards the empowerment of the marginalised community.
The teaching staff was aware of Suchitra’s identity, who openly discussed her feelings with them - especially the felling that she was a woman trapped in a man's body.
Over 40 transgenders from Kolkata, Malda and North Dinajpur came together and collected relief materials and distributed them among victims in the worst affected areas in the state.