In India, law, language, and healthcare coalesce to ensure the exclusion of transgender persons
Excerpted from the book Transforming Rights: How Law Shapes Transgender Lives, Identity and Community in India, edited by Jayna Kothari
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India has less than 600 trans school students, shows government data
Six states and union territories have not recorded a single trans school student over the past four years.
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Less than 1,500 transgender students enrolled in India’s colleges and universities
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How India continues to deny its genderqueer citizens access to toilets
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The harrowing queer struggle of accessing STI care in India
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In Modi’s India, no structural gains for queer rights, only symbolic victories
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