India does not officially know how many transgender people are lodged in the jails in the country while several prisons identify them as a male or female as per their genitalia and force them to stay in male or female […]
Assamese director and noted critic Utpal Datta says he has written to President Ram Nath Kovind requesting him to include an award for the third gender or transgender people at the National Film Awards. By Utpal Datta Datta, best known […]
More than six years after the Supreme Court of India granted the third gender status to transgenders, they remain marginalised in society and the most vulnerable group inside prisons. BY DIVYA TRIVEDI While delivering the landmark National Legal Services Authority […]
Calcutta, Two-hundred-and-fourteen transgender persons were lodged in prisons across India from May 2018 to April 2019. By Debraj Mitra A report on transgender persons lodged in Indian prisons, billed as the first of its kind, was released at a virtual […]
People’s Ultimate League (PUL) is an independent grassroots initiative, supported by the Ultimate Players Association of India (UPAI) in alignment with its strategic pillar of inclusivity. The PUL is also backed by Women Win (womenwin.org), an organization that supports all […]
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday deferred hearing a plea seeking a direction to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to recognise and classify transgenders as a separate third gender in their Annual Publication of Prison Statistics India. The petition […]
“Prima facie, the prayers are very pertinent and reasonable”, said the Delhi High Court today in a PIL seeking inclusion of separate data on transgender prisoners in reports prepared by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) [Karan Tripathi v. NCRB […]
The plea has argued that till date, only two genders appear in the report and the third gender is excluded. NEW DELHI: A plea in Delhi High Court has sought direction to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to include […]
A plea has been filed in the Delhi HC seeking a direction to NCRB to recognise & classify transgenders as a separate third gender in their annual report Written By Gargi Rohatgi A petition has been filed in the Delhi […]
The owner of a new restaurant on Rajiv Gandhi Salai complained that the two had extorted ₹10,000 from him The city police have arrested two transgender persons for allegedly extorting money from shopkeepers on Rajiv Gandhi Salai, in the garb […]
