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cannot inhabit public spaces and command the same respect that a heterosexual cis-man would receive from his fellow citizens because their bodies themselves are stigmatised presences.
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As per the NHRC survey, only 2% of transgender persons in India live with their families; face sexual violence and are more predisposed to sexual diseases etc.
crucial recommendations made by a standing committee to review its provisions in 2017. The first recommendation made a case for reservation for transgender persons in educational institutions and for jobs; denial of legal recognition of the rights of transgender persons to marriage and partnerships, which is difficult in a country that largely recognises only two genders. Indians have stubbornly stuck to the gender binary as a basis for defining their sociocultural reality etc.
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The first recommendation made a case for reservation for transgender persons in educational institutions and for jobs.
t is vital that the second recommendation to ensure legal recognition of partnerships and marriage be included in the bill
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which prohibits “unnatural sex acts,” is also frequently used to target transgender persons
although the bill has been regarded as progressive, it falls short of addressing the central problem of extending sexual citizenship to transgender persons.
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the bill should be provisioned in such a manner that it is able to integrate transgender persons seamlessly into the fabric of everyday public life. The legal endeavour should be to support the process of normalising the presence of transgender persons in public spaces, at workplaces, and in normative domestic spaces.
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In August 2018, Kerala became the second Indian state to offer ₹2 lakh t for sex realignment surgeries. This is the kind of support to adequately access healthcare, and overcome the exploitation and abuse they face at the hands of dubious medical professionals.
central legislation made to safeguard the rights of the transgender community in India ought to follow Tamil Nadu’s example. In 2004, Tamil Nadu established a welfare board The state offered basic affirmative measures like concessional housing and vocational training centres, in addition to which free sex realignment surgery in specific government hospitals was also offered.
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profoundly absurd that we think of ourselves as inhabiting a “modern” world, and yet there exists a sizeable community of people who are structurally ostracised and denied the fundamental right to a livelihood.
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definition derogatory, but also betrays an inability to think outside of the gender binary by defining a transgender person in negative terms, as someone who is not of an established and accepted gender.
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as “one who is (i) neither wholly female or male (ii) a combination of female and male; or (iii) neither f .. “one who is (i) neither wholly female or male (ii) a combination of female and male; or (iii) neither female nor male.”
now.......... “not match the gender assigned at birth, and includes trans-men and trans-women, persons with intersex variations and gender-queers
Overall, the bill should be provisioned in such a manner that it is able to integrate transgender persons seamlessly into the fabric of everyday public life. The legal endeavour should be to support the process of normalising the presence of transgender persons in public spaces, at workplaces, and in normative domestic spaces.
they are estranged from their families, which removes them from one of the most primary forms of social legitimacy. As per the NHRC survey, only 2% of transgender persons in India live with their families.
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crucial recommendations made by a standing committee to review its provisions in 2017. The first recommendation made a case for reservation for transgender persons in educational institutions and for jobs; denial of legal recognition of the rights of transgender persons to marriage and partnerships, which is difficult in a country that largely recognises only two genders. Indians have stubbornly stuck to the gender binary as a basis for defining their sociocultural reality etc.
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