Transgender

The Social Justice Department has already sent across its proposal and is yet to receive a reply from KSRTC for permissions.

Through this policy, counselling centres will be put up to address discrimination and exploitation cases against the community, along with identification and certification.

Within hours after she walked the ramp, Telugu woman Mona was all over the internet being hailed as the first transgender plus-size model in India.

After passing out of school in 2015, she got admitted to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, which is when she felt the most changes within her.

At the fifth annual Hijra Habba, it was decided that the transgender community would come out in public and fight for inclusion through music and dance, and also exhibit their art and craft.

Part of the state’s Transgender Policy first unveiled in 2015, the move has been undertaken by the state’s Health and Social Justice departments, in collaboration with Legal Services Society with an aim to make the state’s health sector transgender-friendly.

When 23 TG employees were deployed in June, the criteria for recruitment included their educational qualifications. While Kudumbasree trained them with soft skills, the Metro agency upskilled them in managing ticket counters and housekeeping.

While giving accurate scientific information and guidelines, TransVision’s first series will also highlight the historical, socio-cultural and anthropological background of the transgender community.

“Gender is not something that is defined by what is in between your legs. Gender is just a notion in our minds.”

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.