Indian Transgender Community

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
· Dec 18, 2021 · 09:30 pm
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.

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· Dec 08, 2018 · 03:30 pm
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.

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· Jul 22, 2018 · 05:30 pm

In a first, transsexual couple get married in Kerala

The wedding took place in Thiruvananthapuram and was attended by several activists and politicians.

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· May 11, 2018 · 09:45 am
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.

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· Jun 24, 2017 · 11:30 am
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.

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· Jun 08, 2017 · 09:30 pm

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