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शबनम मौसी | SHABNAM MAUSI (2005) dir. Yogesh Bharadwaj Born to a wealthy and privileged family, Shabnam is sent to live in house of hijras as an infant for being intersex. When one of the members of her household kills the woman who raised her in a fit of rage, Shabnam is blamed for the crime and is forced to go underground, relocating to a town where she comes to the rescue of a girl being attacked by a group of men. Shabnam’s heroic act makes her a minor celebrity in the village, and she decides to use her new recognition to help drive a corrupt politician from office in an upcoming election. Inspired by the true story of Shabnam Mausi, the first Hijra to be elected to public office in India. (link in title)

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Shabnam Mausi : A Trailblazer

Co-hosting a weekly pride drawing prompt thing on Instagram but thought I'd post the work here too!

In post-colonial India, while homosexuality was still criminalized, being trans wasn't! Trans people became the face of South Asian queer activism and solid proof of their successes is a series of legislations, affirmative actions, and inclusive laws and bills that they paved the way for and continue to do so. In 1994, transgender people got the right to vote as a transgender person (as in your voter ID card wouldn't say your birth gender and you can choose to identify not as a part of the gender binary on paper). And in 1998 came Shabnam Mausi - an amab visibly intersex person, who chose to not side with any majority political parties of the time, fought the state elections as a nirdaliya/independent candidate, and won a seat in the state legislative assembly for Madhya Pradesh from the Sohagpur constituency! Shabnam Mausi was in office from 1998 to 2003 and continues to be an outspoken political figure even now, as a 68 year old. Shabnam Mausi is involved in grassroots movements spreading awareness about not only gender discrimination, but also involved in initiatives to spread HIV/AIDS awareness, speaking up against unemployment, corruption, poverty, and more.

In the light of recent developments as the increasing transphobia in the west plagues the global queer movement, stories like that of Shabnam Mausi should be shared, propagated, and amplified. Shabnam Mausi is an icon, just like the many many trans, third gender, intersex, genderfluid, and other genderqueer people actively and silently working towards undoing systemic barriers in their countries!

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Shabnam Banu

Birth : 1955

Ethnicity : Indian

Occupation : Politician,HIV activist,dancer, trans rights activist,social worker

Alma mater : N/A

Gender : Third gender

Sexuality : N/A

Party : Jeeti Jitayi Politics

Shabnam Bano or Banu is an Indian-born hijra , who is popular by the name Shabnam Mausi. She is also a prominent figure in trans rights movement.

Shabnam was the first hijra person to be elected as MLA in South Asia. She was an active member of the Madhya Pradesh State's Legislative Assembly (from 1998 to 2003). She inspired many hijras/kinners/khawaja saras in India to take up politics and participate in 'mainstream activities' in India, giving up their traditional roles as dancers, prostitutes and beggars.

Early life

Shabnam was born as intersex person in 1955. Shabnam's father gave her a masculine name Chandra Prakash. He was a police and a Brahmin hindu. After Shabnam's birth, he gave her to a local hijra community. Because he thought that his honour could be decreased in the society if someone find out that his child is an intersex.

Shabnam was adopted by Halima, a muslim hijra under the guru-chela kinship.In this matrilineal kinship Halima became her new mother (guru maa) & leader. Her guru nani (hijra grandma in guru-chela kinship) gave her a new name Shabnam Bano. Despite being a hijra, she attended only 2 years of primary schooling. Then she started begging, dancing in marriage & different occasion like other hijras.

Faith

From her early childhood she was raised in an interfaith Hijra dera (household). She practiced a religious syncretism, sometimes worshiping to hindu gods, sometimes praying in the dargah. After leaving the hijra community, Shabnam chosed brahmin lifestyle. Although she kept her muslim name Shabnam Banu.

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LGBT politicians from India

Madhu Kinnar

Madhu Bai Kinnar is the mayor of Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, India. Running as an independent candidate, Madhu won the mayor election of the Raigarh Municipal Corporation, securing 33,168 votes and defeating the nearest rival, the ruling party BJP's Mahaveer Guruji, by 4,537 votes. She is India's only openly transgender mayor.

Shabnam Mausi

Shabnam "Mausi" Bano (शबनम मौसी) ("Mausi" noun. Hindi - "Aunty") is the first transgender Indian to be elected to public office (MLA). She was an elected member of the Madhya Pradesh State Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2003. (Hijras were granted voting rights in 1994 in India.)

Gautam Raghavan

Gautam Raghavan is an Indian American political advisor who is the deputy director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. Raghavan previously served as the associate director of the Office of Public Liaison in the Obama administration.

Manvendra Singh Gohil

His Highness Manvendra Singh Gohil (born 23 September 1965) is an Indian prince who is the son and probable heir of the honorary Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat. He is the first openly gay prince in the world. He runs a charity, the Lakshya Trust, which works with the LGBT community.

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10 Queer Characters/Couples in Indian Media

A topic that has been taboo in Indian society forever now, homosexuality is now prevalent and more talked about than ever. There have been many forms of normalization the Indian audience has been exposed to, such as literature, social media awareness, and of course, Indian Media. In celebration of Pride Month, I’d like to stray away from the more dehumanizing and embarrassing portrayals of LGBTQ+ characters and instead focus on the more positive and realistic portrayals of them. So here are 10 queer characters and couples in Indian Media (keep in mind, I probably missed some queer Indian characters, so please don’t @ me. These are some of my personal favorites and most of these movies are available on online platforms)

*minor spoiler for Kapoor and Sons*

*THIS WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THE BLM PROTESTS. DONATE TO THE MOVEMENT OR SIGN PETITIONS*

1. AMAN-KARTHIK IN SHUBH MANGAL ZYADA SAAVDHAN

Probably the most recent one on the list, SMZS took the internet by surprise with the great representation. Starring Ayushmann Khurrana as Karthik and Jitendra Kumar as Aman, the movie showed a healthy relationship between the two and made their personalities deeper than the typical gay man stereotype. Although the movie did have a story structure similar to the modern situational comedy movies (i.e. Dream Girl and Badhaai Ho), this movie is a fun ride and an important step towards LGBTQ+ acceptance in Indian cinema. SMZS is available of Amazon Prime.

2. SWEETY-KUHU IN EK LADKI KO DEKHA TOH AISA LAGA

Proclaimed as the first mainstream Bollywood movie to showcase a lesbian love story as the main focus, this movie was bold for many. Starring Sonam Kapoor as Sweety and Regina Cassandra as Kuhu, their chemistry on-screen was lovable and so was the innocence of their intentions. Sweety’s journey of acceptance of her identity is one that many could empathize with and the movie overall was visually pleasing to look at. In technical terms, I found the movie slightly bland but that doesn’t make me disregard the impact it has had in queer love stories in Bollywood. Watch it on Netflix.

3. SHABNAM MAUSI IN SHABNAM MAUSI

Rolling backwards in time to 2005′s, Shabnam Mausi is about the real-life Shabnam Bano, the first transgender woman to become a political activist. Played by Ashutosh Rana, this movie was incredibly risky for obvious reasons. At that time, transgender women were ostracized by society and for a fairly famous Rana to take up this role was daring. Even though the movie had exaggerated many events that took place in Bano’s life, Ashutosh Rana’s great performance can’t be ignored.

4. RAHUL KAPOOR IN KAPOOR AND SONS

2016′s Kapoor and Son’s was an emotional movie centered around a family and their troubles. The oldest son Rahul, played by Fawad Khan, for most of the runtime is portrayed to be the perfect child but towards the end, it is discovered that he is a closeted gay in a relationship. Fawad Khan is charming and effortless as always and he bought a sense of rawness and authenticity to his performance. His subplot is just one of the many brushstrokes that make this movie the way it is. Available on Netflix.

5. RADHA-SITA IN FIRE

Both Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das were proven brave for taking up the role of Radha and Sita, especially considering the negativity surrounding LGBTQ folks at 1996 India. The movie was unjustly marred with controversy and hate by conservatives, but almost all critics hailed this film as gutsy and path-breaking, which it was in many ways. Along with portraying a lesbian love story in the forefront, the movie also portrays unhappy marriages and age gap relationships well. Catch this one of YouTube.

6. LAILA-KHANUM IN MARGARITA WITH A STRAW

Laila is a teenager with celebral palsy and Khanum is a blind Pakistani-Bangladeshi. The two extremely daring roles were carried out to near perfection by Kalki and Sayani in this gem of a movie. The chemistry between them was impeccable and the moments they have together will definitely make you tear up. This movie was path-breaking for portraying characters with disabilities in a good way and (of course) tackling the subject of sexuality with nuance. Catch this heartfelt movie on Hulu.

7. PROFESSOR SIRAS IN ALIGARH

Aligarh is a biopic of Professor Ramchandra Siras, a former professor at Aligarh Muslim University who was caught getting intimate with a rickshaw puller, causing him to get suspended. Siras is a character easy to empathize with and everything that Bajpayee emoted was very praiseworthy. You could really feel Siras’ pain and struggle through the screen. Despite the movie being moderately successful, Bajpayee’s performance didn’t go unnoticed and he went on to win a Filmfare in Best Actor (Critics) category. 

8. SHILPA IN SUPER DELUXE

The only regional character in this list, Shilpa played by Vijay Sethupathi is a transgender woman who comes back to her childhood town to meet her family and child she left years ago. Although she is a small part of this 3 hour long movie, she is easily the most iconic character and her conversations with Rasukutty seems very genuine and wholesome. Her storyline was engaging and when the sad and unfortunate incident happens to her, I couldn’t help but shed a tear. Definitely one of my most favorite characters in South Indian cinema. Watch this masterpiece of a movie on Netflix.

9. NIKHIL-NIGEL IN MY BROTHER... NIKHIL

Nikhil Kapoor, played by Sanjay Suri, is a competitive swimmer who has a hard time with accepting himself when he has HIV and Nigel D’Costa is his supportive boyfriend. Much like Shabnam Mausi and Aligarh, the movie is based on the real life Dominic D’Souza, who was a well-known AIDS activist. Certainly another brave attempt to normalize gay portrayal in the silver screen during challenging times, the movie was received well worldwide and deservedly so. The movie featured great performances from everyone and the ending carried so many mixed emotions that it was just beautiful. Available on YouTube.

10. KARAN MEHRA IN MADE IN HEAVEN

One of my personal favorites in the list, Karan, played brilliantly by Arjun Mathur, is a wedding planner along with Tara Khanna. He is a well-fleshed out character with a great personality and I think 50% of my most favorite moments are with him in it. The web series manages to show the nitty gritty situations gay people faced before the court’s decision on Section 377, from the parents’ reactions, to facing society’s stigma. I found myself sobbing and smiling along with him throughout the series and I am interested as to what is planned ahead for him. Please watch this series on Amazon Prime its very good.

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Trans Awareness Week, day 4: we are highlighting the Kinnar and māhū gender labels, originating from India and Hawai'i respectively.

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Image 1: A white square with a black shadow, against a background which is in the colours of the trans flag: horizontal stripes in light blue, light pink, white, light pink, and light blue. Pink and black text in the centre of the white square reads: "Trans Awareness Week highlighting trans identities Kinnar and Māhū" In the top left corner of the square is the LGBTQ+ Association logo (two prisms in the colours of the inclusive pride flag, with black text over them reading "LGBTQ+ UoB ASSOCIATION"). In the top right corner is the Guild of Students logo (black and white text reading "Your Students' Union University of Birmingham guild of students"). End image 1.

Image 2: A white square with a black shadow, against a background in the colours of the trans flag. Pink and black text in the centre of the white square reads: "Trans Awareness Week highlighting trans identities Kinnar In the Indian subcontinent, Kinnars are trans and intersex people, most of whom are assigned male at birth. The hijra community in India prefer to call themselves Kinnar or Kinner, referring to the mythological beings that excel at song and dance. Kinnars have a recorded history in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. Kinnars are officially recognized as a third gender in the Indian subcontinent, after decades of lobbying from hijra activists and NGOs. Kinnar is included in the umbrella term 'trans'. Not all transfeminine people living in the Indian subcontinent consider themselves to be hijras, and not all hijras consider themselves to be trans." In the top left corner of the square is the LGBTQ+ Association logo. In the top right corner is the Guild of Students logo. End image 2.

Image 3: A white square with a black shadow, against a background in the colours of the trans flag. Pink and black text in the centre of the white square reads: "Trans Awareness Week highlighting trans identities Shabnam Mausi (she/her) is the first transgender, Kinnar Indian to be elected to public office from 1998 to 2003. Her political agenda included fighting corruption, unemployment, poverty, and hunger, as well as speaking out against discrimination against trans people and Kinnars and raising awareness about HIV/AIDS. In 2003, Kinnars in Madhya Pradesh established their own political party called "Jeeti Jitayi Politics", which literally means 'politics that has already been won'. Shabnam Mausi continues to participate actively in combatting AIDS/HIV with NGOs and gender activists in India." There are two photos of Shabnam, an Indian Kinnar with tied back black hair and a bindi. In one, she is wearing a pink sari and has one arm in the air. In the other, she is wearing a pink and green patterned shirt and is looking at the camera.In the top left corner of the square is the LGBTQ+ Association logo. In the top right corner is the Guild of Students logo. End image 3.

Image 4: A white square with a black shadow, against a background in the colours of the trans flag. Pink and black text in the centre of the white square reads: "Trans Awareness Week highlighting trans identities MāhūIn Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) and Maohi (Tahitian) cultures, Māhū are third gender persons with traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture. In the pre-colonial history of Hawai'i, Māhū were notable priests, healers, and teachers, usually of hula dance and chant. In 2003, the transfeminine gender label mahuwahine was coined within Hawai'i's queer community: māhū (in the middle) + wahine (woman). The transmasculine equivalent term is māhū kāne (in the middle + man). Māhū is included in the umbrella term 'trans'. Not all trans people from the Kanaka Maoli and Maohi cultures consider themselves to be māhū, and not all māhū consider themselves to be trans." In the top left corner of the square is the LGBTQ+ Association logo. In the top right corner is the Guild of Students logo. End image 4.

Image 5: A white square with a black shadow, against a background in the colours of the trans flag. Pink and black text in the centre of the white square reads: "Trans Awareness Week highlighting trans identities Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu (she/her), also known as Kumu Hina, is a Native Hawaiian māhū and transgender woman. She is a kumu hula (hula teacher), a filmmaker, and a community leader in the field of Kanaka Maoli language and cultural preservation. She was a founder of the Kulia Na Mamo transgender health project and the Chair of the Oʻahu Island Burial Council, which oversees the management of Native Hawaiian burial sites and ancestral remains. She has been both the subject and the producer of several award-winning documentaries narrated in both English and Hawaiian." There are two photos of Kumu Hina, a Native Hawaiian māhū with tied up dark hair. In one, she is looking at the camera and wearing a yellow and green patterned top. In the other, she is looking into the distance and wearing a white, yellow, and black dress and feathers in her hair. In the top left corner of the square is the LGBTQ+ Association logo. In the top right corner is the Guild of Students logo. End image 5]

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Transgender voters has increased by 32.58 percent in last 5 years in Madhya Pradesh । मध्य प्रदेश में पिछले पांच सालों में 32.58 प्रतिशत बढ़े किन्नर मतदाता

Transgender voters has increased by 32.58 percent in last 5 years in Madhya Pradesh । मध्य प्रदेश में पिछले पांच सालों में 32.58 प्रतिशत बढ़े किन्नर मतदाता

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TRANSGENDER SHABNAM MAUSI SHOOT THE BADHAI SONG FOR HANSA EK SANYOG

TRANSGENDER SHABNAM MAUSI SHOOT THE BADHAI SONG FOR HANSA EK SANYOG

Transgender Shabnam Mausi came to Mumbai to shoot the badhai song for Hindi film Hansa Ek Sanyog Shabnam Bano (Shabnam Mausi) 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. The story of the eunuchs in India is very distressing. They are marginalized in the society.  They are…

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Womxn Resist Wednesday: The First of Their Kind

This week, we talked all about womxn in politics. Our resistors all started as grassroots activists who entered the political arena to scale-up their impact. Check out a quick recap of all the womxn we mentioned this week on our Instagram:

Aisha Rateb, Egypt's first female ambassador who pushed for gender equity.

Gertrude Mongella, the first president of the Pan-African parliament and advocate for womxn in politics around the globe.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a champion of the people, sharing the importance of self-care while in office.

Ada Colau, an activist for tenants who continues to organize for her community

Marielle Franco, a Black bisexual woman from a favela who shifted representation and power in Brazil.

Keep reading to hear about four more incredible resisters!

Shabnam Mausi

Before ever getting elected, Shabnam Mausi worked as a social worker, helping to better her community from the grassroots level. Once electeed to the Legislative Assembly, she became the first openly transgender Indian to hold any public office.  She amplifies her activism with her political positionally to speak against discrimination towards transgender folks, hijras, eunuches, and cross-dressers in India. Shabnam also inspires other transgender Indians to participate fully in life, rather than on the margins.

WATCH one film's interpretation of her mobilizing campaign.

Dr. Habiba Sarābi

When Dr. Habiba had to flee Afghanistan to Pakistani, she began to secretly teach girls in refugee camps. She continued to advocate for women as she worked for civil society organizations focused on education and humanitarian assistance for women. Because of her leadership in these fields, she became the first female governor of a providence in Afghanistan. With her new role, she works to gain international support for the Hazara minority she represents. Helping to rebuild the political world of Afghanistan after the Taliban, Dr. Habiba keeps up the fight for women's rights. LISTEN to Dr. Habiba explain her tremendous impact.

Carmen Muñoz Quesada

Carmen is a Costa Rican politician using her platform to advocate for feminism and the LGBTQIA community. As a congresswoman in the legislative assembly, she pushed for recognition of same-sex unions. Now, as the first lesbian minister in Costa Rica as the Vice-Minister of Government and Police, she continues to advocate for the Queer community. STAY UPDATED with her political activism through her twitter

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Jóhanna began her career as a labor activist in Icelandic unions. After 14 weeks of protest in 2009, following the financial crisis the year earlier, she was appointed prime minister, thanks in part to her civil resistance. This appointment made her the first openly gay prime minister any where in the world. Jóhanna was tasked with leading Iceland out of a financial crisis and guiding their first left-wing government. She did this while using her political position to champion women’s rights in the workplace and passing legislation to support gender equity.

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Rashami Desai Yoga Photos on 21st Jun 2022

Rashami Desai Yoga Photos on 21st Jun 2022

Rashami Desai – 21st Jun 2022 – is an Indian actress, dancer and mostly acted in Bhojpuri movies. Shivani Desai was born 13 February 1986 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her stage name is Rashami Desai. She made her Bollywood debut Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke in 2004. Rashami’s Hindi movies are Shabnam Mausi, Dabangg 2 and web series Tandoor. She was nominated Gujarati Iconic Film Award for Best Actress to her…

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Know About Shabnam Mausi, India's First Successful Transgender Politician https://t.co/HuggWupFyh

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Rashami Desai is a well-known popular star in the entertainment industry. Many shows the actress worked in Uttaran, Dil Se Dil Tak, Ravan, Naagin 4. The actress has done many reality shows like Zara Nachke Dikha, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Bigg Boss Season 13, Khatron Ke Khiladi, and Nach Baliye. Her film career is great. Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke, Dabangg 2, Shabnam Mausi.

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Study On Transgenders

1.1 Efforts taken to improve the situation of transgenders in India National Legal Services Authority versus Union of India: The Supreme Court of India legalized the presence of transgender people in 2014, and allowed the legal creation of a “third gender” category. o The judgement also called for affirmative action in education, primary health care, and that transgenders be identified as beneficiaries of social welfare schemes.

NHRC in its report has pointed that center and state government have failed to implement SC guidelines in NALSA judgement or bring laws to improve lives of the transgenders. There is also no clarity on OBC status of transgenders".

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1.2. Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016:

The Bill defines a transgender person as one who is partly female or male; or a combination of female and male; or neither female nor male. In addition, the person’s gender must not match the gender assigned at birth, and includes trans-men, trans-women, persons with intersex variations and gender-queers.

It prohibits discrimination against a transgender person in areas such as education, employment, and healthcare. It directs the central and state governments to provide welfare schemes in these areas.

Offences like compelling a transgender person to beg, denial of access to a public place, physical and sexual abuse, etc. would attract up to two years’ imprisonment and a fine.

It directs Central government to constitute a National Council for Transgender headed by the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.

It provides no child who is born a transgender can be separated from his parents except on a court’s order.

Every transgender person shall have a right to reside in the house-hold where parent or immediate family members reside;

a right not to be excluded from such house-hold or any part thereof;

a right to enjoy and use the facilities of such house-hold in a nondiscriminatory manner.

The Government shall take the following measures in relation to the transgender persons, namely: a separate HIV surveillance Centres;

to provide for medical care facility including sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy; pre and post sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy counselling;

bring out a Health Manual related to sex reassignment surgery in accordance with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines;

to facilitate access to the transgender persons in the hospitals and other healthcare institutions and centres;

provision for coverage of medical expenses by a comprehensive insurance scheme for transgender persons.

Issues with the bill: The Bill states that a person recognised as ‘transgender’ would have the right to ‘self-perceived’ gender identity. However, it does not provide for the enforcement of such a right. A District Screening Committee would issue a certificate of identity to recognise transgender persons.

The Supreme Court has held that the right to self-identification of gender is part of the right to dignity and autonomy under Article 21 of the Constitution.

The definition of ‘transgender persons’ in the Bill is at variance with the definitions recognised by international bodies and experts in India.

The Bill includes terms like ‘trans-men’, ‘trans-women’, persons with ‘intersex variations’ and ‘gender-queers’ in its definition of transgender persons. However, these terms have not been defined.

Certain criminal and personal laws that are currently in force only recognise the genders of ‘man’ and ‘woman’. It is unclear how such laws would apply to transgender persons who may not identify with either of the two genders.

It does not include the creation of institutions like the national and State commissions for transgenders, as well as transgender rights courts which were part of the earlier draft bill.

Tamil Nadu is frontrunning state in taking steps for development of transgenders by providing them education, identity cards and subsidized food and free housing. In a pioneering effort to address the issues faced by transgender people, the government of Tamil Nadu established a transgender welfare board in 2008 (West Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka have also established the board). Seats have been reserved in colleges and universities for the members of transgender community.

Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative has formed a federation of 20,000 transgenders which provides various health services to its members.

Kerala government brought the ‘State Policy for Transgenders in Kerala 2015’ to provide the “right to live with dignity.” Village and district panchayats and municipalities have been tasked with finding jobs, running special training and skills programmes and welfare projects.

A Transgender Justice Board has been established to address issues of discrimination and violence against them.

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1.3. Successful Transgender persons in India

In 1998 Shabnam Mausi became first transgender to get elected to a public office.

In 2014, Grace Banu was the first transgender student to secure admission in an engineering college.

In 2015, India got its first transgender college principal when Manabi Bandhopadhyaya joined as the principle of Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal.

Revathi became the first transgender to write about transgender issues and gender politics in Tamil.

Padmini Prakash is the first transgender television news anchor in the country.

University Grants commission in 2014 issued a notification to facilitate the education of transgenders such as grievance cells in colleges, separate category in admission and examination forms etc.

Important steps taken by states:

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Way forward

International Practices

Countries like Denmark, Malta and Argentina have made legislations related to self-determination. Following Argentina’s lead India can choose to adopt the Yogyakarta principles- i.e. adopt a model of gender recognition that does not rely on a diagnosis by medical professionals.

In United Kingdom change in legal sex does not have an effect on marriage, security benefits/pensions and do not adversely affect parenthood or succession rights.

Following precedents set by Iran, Argentina and Brazil sexual reassignment surgery and hormone therapy should be defined as a public health right and be made freely available.

Government has taken certain measures to identify and enumerate transgender population. These measures need more streamlining and inter-ministerial cooperation is also required.

While various state governments formulated schemes for transgender communities, a National policy is an urgent need to ensure greater involvement of transgender persons in policy formulation and program development.

It is important to sensitize parents of transgender children and other members of the society with regards to the human rights of the transgender community.

Transgender children are under severe stress and low self-esteem and counselling services need to be provided to them. A component of such services could be included under the Integrated Child Protection Schemes.

Legal and the law enforcement systems need to be empowered and sensitized on the issues of Transgender community. Special Grievance Redressal Cells for their protection should be set up in all police stations.

Child Protection laws need to be strengthened to address issues faced by transgender adolescents. The abandonment of child is a punishable offence under Section 317 of IPC. The age limit of child for this offence need to be increased to 18 years as abandonment of transgender children usually takes place between 12 and 18 years.

Care homes for transgender children should be setup to prevent exploitation of vulnerable transgender children.

Legally transgender cannot enter into a marriage, have spouse and setup their own family in India. They need to be provided right to marry and right to a family along with right of sexual orientation.

Government should take steps to provide housing facilities to transgender people.

Transgender people should get equal employment opportunities and every employer should be made to declare policy statement on trans recruitments.

Local governments need to play a positive and proactive role in removal of taboos and discrimination.

All treatment and other facilities should be provided at free of cost or at subsidized rates to all transgender patients in both government and private hospitals.

School and colleges need to play a supportive and encouraging role in providing education and value-system to Transgender.

Establishment of helpline for career planning and guidance, career opportunities and online placement system must be empowered.

Liberal credit facilities and financial assistance must be ensured to start up their career as an entrepreneur or businessman.

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Shabnam Mausi (2005): Mp3 Songs Download

Shabnam Mausi (2005): Mp3 Songs Download

Shabnam Mausi 2005 Bollywood Movie Mp3 Audio Songs Free Download

Shabnam Mausi 2005 Film Information: Cast: Ashutosh Rana, Sujeet Chaubey, Rashami Desai Director: Yogesh Bharadwaj Music Director: N/A Release: 20 May 2005 Country: India Language: Hindi

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Wanted to break the stereotypical representation of trans people in cinema: Mujeer

Project Indian Bride

Indian cinema has completed over hundred years. In these years, not many stories around transgenders have been told. Even if there are transgender characters, they are either played by male actors such as Ashutosh Rana in Shabnam Mausi or female actors such as Seema Biswas in Queens! Destiny of Dance. There has been a lack of inclusiveness for the third gender in the film industry, as it has been…

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Rashami Desai New Photos on 11th Jun 2022

Rashami Desai New Photos on 11th Jun 2022

ரஷ்மி தேசாயின் லேட்டஸ்ட் படங்கள் 11 ஜூன் 2022 Rashami Desai – 11th Jun 2022 – is an Indian actress, dancer and mostly acted in Bhojpuri movies. Shivani Desai was born 13 February 1986 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her stage name is Rashami Desai. She made her Bollywood debut Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke in 2004. Rashami’s Hindi movies are Shabnam Mausi, Dabangg 2 and web series Tandoor. She was nominated…