Hyderabad: The State’s first healthcare facility for members of the transgender community, Mitr Clinic, has quickly emerged as a safe destination where community members can walk in without any inhibition and not worry about getting judged, while accessing quality health services, that too from their own ilk. The ‘Mitr Clinic’ near Narayanguda has become a […]
Hyderabad: A two-judge Bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili affirmed that there was a need to have certain parameters that decide the eligibility of a person in availing State’s welfare schemes. The Bench was dealing with a writ plea that contended that transgenders have […]
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has called for applications by transgender candidates for the recruitments in the state police department for the first time. As per the Amendment of Karnataka Civil Services (General Recruitment) Rules, 1977 to facilitate providing one per cent jobs to transgenders, the Karnataka Police department has called for applications from transgenders for […]
The experts said that social stigma and lack of awareness hold back people from taking timely treatment, driving overall less survival rates for men than for women.
Speaking on the occasion, Cyberabad Commissioner Sajjanar emphasised on the world’s first-ever Transgender Desk that has been established by Cyberabad Police and spoke about how the desk is doing a good job
Basing their order on an earlier February 2019 order, the panel wondered how the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation had turned a blind eye to multiple cases of illegal constructions
Nalgonda: More than 70 transgenders (hijras) on Tuesday met the Superintendent of Police A V Ranganath and complained that Kaveri, a hijra from Choutuppal has been harassing them demanding Rs 3,000 per month for taking up begging in erstwhile Nalgonda district. Under the leadership of Hijras Association state president Laila, the hijras met the Superintendent […]
