Transgenders
- India
Special drive in Delhi to add transgenders, sex workers, homeless women in voters’ list
New Delhi: The office of Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer has initiated the process to set up special camps to enrol transgenders, sex workers and vulnerable women in the voters’ list, officials said…
- India
Jharkhand: Transgenders to get Rs 1k pension, benefits of backward class category
Ranchi: With an aim to provide social security and bring them into the mainstream of society, Jharkhand government has decided to add the transgender community under its universal pension scheme, an official…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 19 men arrested for posing as transgenders, extorting money
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police have arrested 19 individuals for impersonating as transgenders and extorting money from bus travelers, shopkeepers, and unsuspecting people by restraining them at traffic signals, causing traffic congestion and nuisance.…
- Delhi
Delhi HC allows activist’s intervention in plea on employment of transgenders
New Delhi: A transgender rights activist, Grace Banu has filed an “Intervention Application” before the Delhi High Court, seeking permission to support the court in a plea seeking hiring of transgender people…
- India
HC asks Maha govt to consider reservation for transgenders
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Maharashtra government to consider granting reservation to transgenders in state-run educational institutions and government jobs. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice S…
- Delhi
Public toilets for transgender people: HC grants 8 weeks as ‘last indulgence’
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set a deadline of eight weeks for construction of public toilets for transgender people in the national capital and warned it will order personal…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Free health camp for LGBT+ community on March 11
Hyderabad: Queer Nilayam, an NGO that works for LGBT+ welfare in the city is organising a free health camp for the LGBTQIA community in Phoenix Arena on March 11 from 10 am…
- Telangana
Telangana: Applications invited for Help Desk, Project Coordinator for transgenders
Hyderabad: Applications are invited for eligible transgender candidates for running the Help Desk and Project Coordinator in the Department for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Senior Citizens and Transgender (WDSC) in Malakpet. According to a press…
- Telangana
Telangana: Transwoman’s husband stabbed to death in Narsingi
Hyderabad: Two people stabbed a man to death and injured another in two separate incidents in Narsingi’s Manchirevula village early Thursday. According to the police, two unidentified persons harassed a transgender woman,…
- Pakistan
Lahore opens its first transgender school providing free education
Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab government has opened the first transgender public school here in the provincial capital in its bid to empower more trans persons in society. Earlier, Pakistan’s Punjab government had set…
- India
Maha moves HC against provisions for transgenders to apply for home dept posts
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Monday moved the Bombay High Court challenging an order passed by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal directing it to create a provision for transgenders in the application form for…
- Telangana
Telangana: Register to avail welfare benefits, says govt to transgenders
Hyderabad: The Telangana state government has called the transgender community to register themselves in the National Portal for Transgender Persons so that they can benefit from various welfare schemes. In a statement…