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Transgender rights

Pakistan’s landmark 2018 law protecting transgender rights faces religious challenge

Jeffrey A Redding
· Jun 08, 2022 · 09:00 am
Denied visibility in official data, millions of transgender Indians can’t access social benefits

Shreya Raman, IndiaSpend.com
· Jun 16, 2021 · 01:30 pm
Transgender people can join NCC on basis of ‘self-perceived gender identity’: Kerala HC

Scroll Staff
· Mar 15, 2021 · 05:35 pm
Explainer: Despite criticism, the Transgender Persons Bill was just passed. What’s next?

Vijayta Lalwani
· Nov 27, 2019 · 06:30 am
Parliament passes Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill

Scroll Staff
· Nov 26, 2019 · 05:16 pm
Madras High Court orders authorities to register a marriage between a man and a transwoman

Scroll Staff
· Apr 23, 2019 · 06:35 pm
Japan’s top court upholds sterilisation law for transgender people seeking gender change

Scroll Staff
· Jan 26, 2019 · 07:23 pm
How Parliament came to have two Bills on transgender persons’ rights (and why neither may pass)

Vijayta Lalwani
· Dec 24, 2018 · 07:30 am
‘This is a black day’: Activists criticise Transgender Persons Bill passed in Lok Sabha

Vijayta Lalwani
· Dec 19, 2018 · 07:43 am
Your Morning Fix: Accused of being a spy, jailed in Pakistan for six years, Mumbai man returns home

Scroll Staff
· Dec 19, 2018 · 06:30 am
With new transgender rights Act, Pakistan could be pathbreaker – if the law is effectively executed

Rimmel Mohydin
· Dec 15, 2018 · 10:30 pm
Tinder India allows 23 new gender identity options – here’s what they are

Scroll Staff
· Nov 14, 2018 · 06:30 pm
Delhi’s transgender community face police harassment despite Supreme Court’s Section 377 verdict

Vijayta Lalwani
· Oct 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm
After West Bengal and Maharashtra, Assam gets its first transgender judge

Scroll Staff
· Jul 13, 2018 · 01:16 pm
Watch: Trans men parody Scarlett Johansson over ‘Rub & Tug’ casting

Scroll Staff
· Jul 11, 2018 · 06:49 pm
Parliamentary panel headed by BJP MP criticises Centre’s draft Bill on transgender rights

Scroll Staff
· Jul 22, 2017 · 10:16 am
Merely celebrating the exceptional achievements of trans-people conceals their struggle

Shreya Ila Anasuya
· Jan 05, 2017 · 11:30 am
Why a new Bill claiming to protect transgender rights has drawn the community's ire

Menaka Rao
· Aug 04, 2016 · 12:30 pm
Activists welcome court directive, but quotas for transgenders in Tamil Nadu will take some doing

Vinita Govindarajan
· Jul 18, 2016 · 12:30 pm
India abstains from voting on UN resolution to appoint an LGBT rights expert

Scroll Staff
· Jul 01, 2016 · 02:25 pm