Indian Transgender Community
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India’s trans people are surviving the pandemic through mutual aid and solidarity
At a time when food and socio-economic insecurities started claiming lives, community-based organisations effectively organised to keep each other alive.
Sohini Chatterjee, The Conversation
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Meet India's first transman to become a bodybuilding champion
The Delhi resident, a lawyer, came second in the Men’s Physique category at Musclemania India.
Soumya Rao
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Community, tradition and struggle: Inside India’s first government-funded transgender poetry meet
The Sahitya Akademi hosted readings by transgender poets in Kolkata in an event chaired by writer and activist Manabi Bandopadhyay.
Upasana Agarwal
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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In a first, transsexual couple get married in Kerala
The wedding took place in Thiruvananthapuram and was attended by several activists and politicians.
Scroll Staff
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Kerala’s first transgender beauty contest was a success – but will it lead to greater victories?
The state has been paving the way for transgender rights since 2014.
TA Ameerudheen
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Why an 80-year-old Indian transgender person chooses a home in a graveyard over ‘normal’ life
Despite some progress in recognising the rights of the third gender in the country, Mona Ahmed finds the mainstream lonely.
Matthew Ponsford
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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The Aravani Art Project: Using street art to empower the transgender community
'The public thinks we only beg and do sex-work.'
Rohini Kejriwal
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Merely celebrating the exceptional achievements of trans-people conceals their struggle
In 2016, trans-visibility was high, but so were trans-deaths and police brutality.
Shreya Ila Anasuya