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Right to Marriage Should be for All: An Open Letter to BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi by Trans Activist Akkai Padmashali

December 24, 2022

Some of us may be left, other liberal and yet others part of the hijra, transgender and sexual minority communities. There is a rainbow spectrum of support for the right to marry for all persons.

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Govt Constitutes National Council for Transgender, Community Seeks More Grassroots Representation, Question Pro-Hindutva Tilt

September 1, 2020

The Council has been formed under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and currently has five community members and five experts from NGOs

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Karnataka BJP Minister Says, “MLAs Who Win Elections with the Help of Muslim votes are Hijras”

September 16, 2019

KS Eshwarappa, a senior BJP Leader and Minister in the present Karnataka Government, called MLAs winning with the help of Muslim votes as 'Hijras' (transgende... Read More...

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How Trans Persons Are Being Excluded in Assam’s NRC

July 18, 2019

Rinki, 26, is from Harmati village in Tezpur district of Assam. She is one of the very few trans persons in the state whose name has appeared in the ... Read More...

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The Fight for Queer Rights in India Just Became Tougher

May 23, 2019

The election results are out now. 2019 was going to be a defining election. And the worst fears of some of us have come true. Some of us were hoping that even ... Read More...

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BJP’s Manifesto Makes No Mention of LGBTQI Rights, Only Vague Statements For Empowering Trans People

April 8, 2019

The Bhartiya Janta Party released its manifesto for Lok Sabha elections 2019. The 45 page manifesto, which was released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, makes ... Read More...

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Maneka Gandhi Must Apologise for Mocking Transgender Community in Parliament

July 30, 2018

Maneka Gandhi went on to refer to persons of all genders, beyond the male-female binary as 'the other ones', rolled her eyes out not knowing what to call us, gave out this horribly embarrassing laugh and then called us 'TGs'

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Opinion: Section 377 and Modi Government’s Poker Face – Court Should Call the Government’s Bluff

July 16, 2018

Without saying so, the government is trying to portray Section 377 as an issue unrelated to the rights of LGBTQ citizens, as if 377 had nothing to do with the their lives.

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