Though the 2011 census puts the population of transgenders at around 4.9 lakh, activists claim it is much higher than that.

The Bill had earlier made it mandatory for any organisation employing 100 or more persons to designate an official to examine complaints of...

India's transgender people were recognised for the first time by the Census in 2011. It pegged the TG population at 4.88 lakh, 56% of whom ...