Despite the Rajiv Gandhi Chaitanya Yojane scheme, the transgender community is unable to find employment opportunities. Transgenders in Bangalore do not get jobs in the government sector despite the one percent reservation proposed by the government. Out of around 6000 transgenders in Bengaluru, a few get jobs in NGOs and some in the corporate sector, but none […]
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Laws or no laws, people from the LGBTQIA+ community find it difficult to rent a space to live in India as landlords continue to give them a hard time. Bangalore: People from the LGBTQIA+ community are struggling to rent or buy a space to live in as they are perceived to be ‘different’ by the […]
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The transgender community remains unsatisfied with government efforts to assist them, they say money is not enough for them to survive. Lucknow: Dhananjay Chauhan, a transwoman from Chandigarh said that their lives as transgender people have always been challenging. They have been a discarded part of society, who have never been accepted or respected. “Most […]
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Yumna Ahmed The Chitrakala photo exhibition took up the theme of Trees and transgenders for their exhibition this year, owing to the fact that the Indian society has been turing a deaf ear to the both of them since ages. K.Venkatesh, the organizer of Chitrakala photo exhibition, said, “This is my 28th exhibition and […]
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Karnataka yet to provide subsidized Sex Re-assignment Surgery (SRS) for transgender communities after the Karnataka state transgender policy gets state cabinet nod. Surbhi Shah Murali, a.k.a. Manali has only two hospitals to consider for her Sex Re-assignment Surgery (SRS) as the other hospitals are expensive. She is still waiting for the government to implement the […]
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Toilets in Bengaluru are still about binary ideas of male and female. By Apoorva GS There are no separate restrooms for the transgender community in Bengaluru. Thousands of non-binary people in the city face discrimination and are subjected to nasty remarks, every time they visit a toilet designated for either males or females. “Whenever I […]
Continue ReadingRemembering the ones we lost this year. Bengaluru, Nov. 20, 2018: On International Transgender Remembrance Day, the world remembers the ones who lost their lives due to transphobia this year. There have been several cases of transpeople being lynched, murdered, and incarcerated. People from across the world showed respect on twitter. GLAAD, a LGBT-centric organization, […]
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Number of female applicants is less than male applicants at the Employment Exchange in Bengaluru Bengaluru, Sept. 18, 2018: All the four Employment Exchange offices in Bengaluru have much higher number of male applicants as compared to female. According to the data from the Directorate of Employment and Training in Bangalore, the total number […]
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