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Topic: Transgender

Allahabad HC suggestion to include transgenders in OBC list will be a disaster

A better way to take care of transgender rights will be to give them horizontal reservation within their respective caste categories.

‘She’ll think for everyone’ — flowers & hope as Bobby Kinnar becomes Delhi’s 1st trans councillor

AAP's Bobby Kinnar, a well-known community leader who has worked with local groups for past 15 years & organised rations for poor during lockdown, was elected from Sultanpuri-A ward.

Transgender women at Miss USA contest will impact ‘ideal vision of American womanhood’, says court

While ruling that the pageant can't be forced to allow transgender women, a US court rejected claim that policy allowing 'natural born' women violates an Oregon anti-discrimination law.

al Qaeda says trans rights in Pakistan are ‘sign of doomsday’, 9/11 was ‘day of difference’

In its magazine Ghazwa-e-Hind, terrorist group says 'generals, colonels of Pakistan Army sold their faith for a few dollars', and Pakistan has 'become a toy in hands of establishment'.

Feel, don’t just act like a man—how US, UK set off trans liberty with onstage cross-dressing

In 'Before We Were Trans', Kit Heyam traces a history of impersonation in theatre across Britian and America, which made gender nonconformity possible.

Pakistan assembly just got its first lesson on pronouns

Trans woman Bubbli Malik requested the Speaker to address by saying the words ‘Hazreen-e-Mehfil’, meaning ‘people present at the gathering’, rather than ‘Ladies & Gentlemen’.

How a brutal murder in 1852 convinced the British to make India’s Hijra community ‘extinct’

In ‘Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India’, Jessica Hinchy writes the first book-length history of the Hijra community.

‘She’s not always a woman to me’: Court cases on ‘gender-deception’ highlight true cost of stigma

The Supreme Court is currently hearing the case of Hariom, who claims he was cheated into marrying “a kind of transgender”. But, men are not the only victims in such cases.

Apple, Google & Microsoft oppose Texas anti-transgender order

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said Thursday that he was 'deeply concerned' about laws being enacted across the US that affect members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Noida has a Pride Station, but India still isn’t ready for transgender colleagues

The transgender community in India doesn’t get many job offers. When they do, it lacks pay, benefits, and sometimes even leave.

On Camera

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.