POLITICAL RIGHTS OF TRANSGENDER

GENDER IDENTITY

Question:

But, you can only be either male or female, right?

Transgender is generally described as an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behaviour does not conform to their biological sex.

Transgender also takes in persons who do not identify with their sex assigned at birth, and they do not identify as either male or female.

Transgender

Categories of Transgenders

Transsexual

Cross-dresser

Gender queer

Androgyne

Bi-gender Drag kings and queens

More terms:Male-to-female (MTF or M2F):A person assigned male at birth who lives,

presents or transitions to female.TranswomanUses female pronouns : she, her, hers

More terms:Female-to-male (FTM or F2M):A person assigned female at birth who lives,

presents or transitions to male.TransmanUses male pronouns; he, him, his

 India’s Supreme Court recognized transgender people as a legal third gender.

The court has directed national and state governments to redress entrenched discrimination suffered by transgender people by recognizing them as an official minority, according them quotas for :public jobs and admission to educational

institutions, making sure they are not discriminated

against when seeking medical careofficial identity documents are now to include a

third gender box.

RIGHTS

The Tamil Nadu state in India was the first state to introduce a transgender (hijra/ aravani) welfare policy.

According to the transgender welfare policy transgender people can access free Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) in the Government Hospital (only for MTF);

free housing program; various citizenship

documents;

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Admission in government colleges with full scholarship for higher studies;

Alternative sources of livelihood through formation of self-help groups (for savings) and initiating income-generation programmes (IGP).

Tamil Nadu was also the first state to form a Transgender Welfare Board with representatives from the transgender community.

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The All India Hijra Kalyan Sabha fought for over a decade to get voting rights, which they finally got in 1994.

In 1996 Kali stood for elections in Patna under the then Judicial Reform Party and gave the Janata Dal and the BJP a bit of a fight.

Munni ran for the elections as well from South Bombay that year.

They both lost, more than 13 years Hijras are participating in the politics in India

POLITICAL ACHIEVMENTS

Kamla Jaan won the position of the mayor of Katni in MP

Shabnam Mausi was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2002

December 2000, Asha Devi became the mayor of Gorakhpur

On 4 January 2015, independent candidate Madhu Bai Kinnar was elected as the mayor of Raigarh, Chhattisgarh becoming India's first openly transgender mayor

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Thank you to the following people and organizations:

EQNM Leslie Feinberg Mara Keisling &

National Center for Transgender Equality

Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Transgender Law Project

Thank you to the following people and organizations:

Navajo Aids Network TGRCNM Santa Fe Mountain Center

and Cooper Lee Bombardier!

NM CPAG ABQ Healthcare for the

Homeless Stephenne Rhodes Thank YOU for being open

and present!

THANK YOU

PRESENTED AND MADE

BY

SUYASH SHANKER