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Understanding Gender Dysphoria- Why Trans People Opt for Surgery

June 21, 2017

Gender dysphoria is real! It can be related to anything; it can be when someone calls you with your assigned name or treat you as a girl, while going through security checks in the women’s queue.

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Watch: Kochi Metro’s Transgender Employees Have a Message For You

June 20, 2017

Kochi Metro has come out with a beautiful short video where transgender employees tell the world to treat them as "just a person doing a job".

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This University in India Will Provide Free Education to Transgender People

June 16, 2017

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU), a University based in Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, has announced that it will provide free education to transgender people taking admission under any of its institutions.

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Journey of a Dancing Queen

June 6, 2017

8 years ago, the Kathak dancer started a dance group called the Dancing Queens which is a tool to advocate gender and sexuality issues like coming out, family support, main streaming, stigma, violence, employment and education

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9th Chennai Rainbow Pride Month Begins, Pride March to be held on 25th June

June 2, 2017

The Chennai Rainbow Pride march will be held on Sunday, 25 June 2017.

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In a First in India, Panjab University Starts Building Separate Toilet for Transgender Students

May 25, 2017

Dhananjay Chauhan, a transgender rights activist currently pursuing Master’s of Human Rights and Duties at Panjab University, has successfully managed to push the University authorities to build a separate washroom for transgender persons in the University

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How Queer Spaces Can be Transphobic – An Open Letter by a Transman Who Felt Violated At an IDAHOBiT Event

May 20, 2017

It comes as a shock when I see that an organisation working on LGBTIQ issues in their invite to mark an IDAHOBiT day emphasizes on legal gender document for trans people

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Kochi Metro Set To Employ 23 Transgender Persons

May 12, 2017

Out of the 530 Kudumbasree workers who will be posted at 11 stations in the Kochi Metro’s Aluva-Palarivattom corridor, 23 will be from the transgender community

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India Grilled Over Human Rights at UN, Countries Urge Repeal of Sec 377

May 6, 2017

Spain, Sweden, Canada, Ireland, Norway, Israel called upon India to repeal Section 377

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Watch: This Vicks Ad About Trans Acceptance Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes

March 31, 2017

Vicks India has come up with a beautiful video that portrays trans acceptance and raises important questions about trans rights

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A Play That Explores Gender Through Mythology

March 31, 2017

‘Shikhandi: The Story of In-Betweens’ gives an interesting new twist to how and why a Yaksha gave his penis to Shikhandi

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Chandigarh’s Garvotsava Ends with Powerful Pride Walk

March 29, 2017

A splash of colours descended on the roads of Chandigarh this Sunday, March 26, with the week-long Garvotsava, a celebration and an appeal for equal rights for the LGBTQ community, culminated in the pride walk.

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