Title INDIA - DEMOGRAPHY - TRANSGENDERS
Date-wise Events
  • 1994:   Hijras were granted voting rights in 1994 in India.
  • 1998:   Shabnam "Mausi" Bano is the first transgender Indian or Hijra to be elected to public office. She was an elected member of the Madhya Pradesh State Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2003.
  • December 09, 2011:   Kamala Kinnar, a eunuch, was elected mayor of Sagar town of Madhya Pradesh in November 2009. However, the district court on this day declared Kamala Kinnar's election as "null and void" because the mayor's seat was reserved for a 'woman' belonging to scheduled caste category. Same thing had happened earlier in 2003 with Kamla Jaan, elected in 1999 as Mayor of katni in Madhya Pradesh.
  • February 23, 2012:   Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India, expressed its opposition to the decriminalisation of homosexual activity, stating that in India, homosexuality is seen as being immoral.
  • February 28, 2012:   The Central Government of India reversed its stand on this day, asserting that there was no legal error in decriminalising homosexual activity.
  • January 27, 2014:   A committee was formed by the government of Inida to conduct a study on all transgender issues.
  • April 15, 2014:   Supreme Court of India declared transgender people as a socially and economically backward class entitled to reservations in Education and Job, and also directed union and state governments to frame welfare schemes for them.
  • January 04, 2015:   Independent candidate Madhu Bai Kinnar was elected as the Mayor of Raigarh, Chhattisgarh becoming India's first openly transgender mayor.
  • January 26, 2015:   Padmini Prakash became India's first transgender television anchor.
  • April 15, 2015: Supreme Court declared transgender people to be a ‘third gender’, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female, or third-gender.
  • April 24, 2015:   The Rajya Sabha passed the Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014 guaranteeing rights and entitlements, reservations in education and jobs (2% reservation in government jobs), legal aid, pensions, unemployment allowances and skill development for transgender people.
  • June 09, 2015:   The world got its first transwoman college principal when Manabi Bandopadhyay took charge of Krishnagar Women's College in West Bengal on this day.
  • November 06, 2015:   The court gave directions to the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) to appoint her as a sub-inspector of police as she is entitled to get the job and also to include transgender people as a "third category", apart from the usual category of "male" and "female".
  • July 20, 2016:   In order to empowering transgenders, the Union Cabinet of India approved The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, which puts in place provisions for stringent punishment, including imprisonment up to two years, for offences against them.
  • February 12, 2017:   Two transgender people were appointed by the Kolhapur District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) as panel members for the Lok Adalat (People’s Court).
  • April 2017:   Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation instructed states to allow transgender people to use the public toilet of their choice.
  • April 04, 2017:   A new era for the transgenders started on this day, when K. Prithika Yashini joined the Tamil Nadu police force after completing her one-year training, thereby becoming the first transgender person to become a police officer in India.
  • July 03, 2017:   The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced that it will waive off the fees for transgender students, in all the courses that it offers. An official said that this has been done to integrate the special group with the mainstream. He added that all the study material will also be provided free of cost.
Description
  •  There are 488,000 transgenders in India, according to the 2011 census.
  • They seek support and job opportunities to live with dignity.
  • They allege discrimination which denies them even basic education and jobs.
  • Most of them have been abandoned by their families.
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