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.

Soumya Rao

· 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.

Upasana Agarwal

· 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.

Scroll Staff

· 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.

TA Ameerudheen

· 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.

Matthew Ponsford

· Jun 08, 2017 · 09:30 pm

The Aravani Art Project: Using street art to empower the transgender community

'The public thinks we only beg and do sex-work.'

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jan 09, 2017 · 05:30 pm

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

· Jan 05, 2017 · 11:30 am