Special schemes being implemented for welfare of transgender people: Tamil Nadu govtTamil Nadu government is implementing schemes for transgender people's development. These include house site pattas and business subsidies....
25 May, 2025, 04.36 PM IST
Himachal Pradesh: Education, jobs and ending discrimination main issues, says transgender iconMaya Thakur, the transgender icon from Kothi village in Kunihar area of Solan district under Shimla parliamentary constituency, advocates f...
18 May, 2024, 12.09 PM IST
Difficult to grant separate reservation for transgenders in education, govt jobs: Maharashtra govt to HCAdvocate General Birendra Saraf told a division bench of acting Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Sandeep Marne that creating addition...
13 Jun, 2023, 07.09 PM IST
Maha govt moves HC against tribunal order directing to create provision for transgenders to apply for home dept postsThe Maharashtra government on Monday moved the Bombay High Court challenging an order passed by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal dir...
28 Nov, 2022, 01.09 PM IST
Maha: Civic body lends helping hand to transgenders, hires them as security guards, green marshalsShaina Roy, a trans-woman, who has been working as a security guard at the PCMC-run Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH), credited T...
23 Jul, 2022, 01.29 PM IST
Odisha frames policy for giving equal opportunity to transgendersThe new policy will also ensure that the work environment is free from any discrimination against transgender persons. Action will be taken...
07 Oct, 2021, 12.04 AM IST
Reversing Trump, US restores transgender health protectionsThe action by the Department of Health and Human Services affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also prote...
10 May, 2021, 06.52 PM IST
Govt launches portal to help transgender community members in applying for I-cardsOnce the certificate and I-card are issued, the applicant can download them from the portal itself. In case of delay or rejection, the appl...
25 Nov, 2020, 07.40 PM IST
Transgenders get right to self-perceived identity as Centre notifies rules to TG ActThe Centre and state governments would bring about changes in the educational curriculum to foster respect for gender diversity, sensitise ...
15 Jul, 2020, 08.58 AM IST
Government makes two major changes in Transgender Bill; may introduce in Parliament next weekNow, a person would be identified as transgender through self-identification and a certificate would be issued by the district magistrate.
18 Jul, 2019, 07.46 AM IST
Cabinet approves transgender billThe bill will benefit large number of transgender persons, mitigate the stigma, discrimination and abuse against this marginalised section ...
10 Jul, 2019, 09.08 PM IST
Cabinet passes reworked Transgender Bill with 27 changesThe Bill had earlier made it mandatory for any organisation employing 100 or more persons to designate an official to examine complaints of...
03 Aug, 2018, 07.30 AM IST
Parliamentary panel favours reservations for transgendersThe committee is examining the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, which seeks to define the term "transgender" and proh...
26 Apr, 2017, 08.20 PM IST
'Despite Supreme Court order, transgenders still feel discriminated'Several participants said the SC's last year verdict was not being implemented in several states and felt that the society still misunderst...
27 Aug, 2015, 05.00 PM IST
Government worried transgenders bill could lead to scrap of Section 377The Centre is worried that the private members' bill on transgender rights could provide a strong opening for decriminalization of homosexu...
22 Jul, 2015, 11.24 AM IST
Why transgender not an option in civil service exam form: Delhi HCThe PIL, filed by advocate Jamshed Ansari, has also sought addition or inclusion of transgender as an eligibility criteria or gender option...
15 Jun, 2015, 06.16 PM IST
- Elders unite in Rajya Sabha to seek equal rights for transgenders
Rajya Sabha members from across the political spectrum joined hands today to ask the government to take steps to bring the transgender comm...
13 Mar, 2015, 05.32 PM IST