The survey for the project will commence on August 29 which is also the National Sports Day. The Varanasi Sports Federation will take active interest in the project and extend possible cooperation.
CA announced that it has developed an Elite Cricket Policy and Guidelines for Community Cricket to support players electing to participate in cricket in line with their gender identity.
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 was passed by a voice vote amid noisy protests by some opposition parties over Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury not being allowed to speak on his adjournment notice.
Researchers have reported two cases in which young transgender women attempted to recover their fertility after stopping gender-affirming medications.
The Delhi Commission For Women on Friday wrote a letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment alleging that the Transgender Bill encourages sexual assault of transgenders.
A bill which provides a mechanism for social, economic and educational empowerment of transgenders by defining their identity and rights to prohibit discrimination against them was introduced in Lok Sabha on Friday.
Bihar becomes the first state in the country, where house owners will be punished for denying to rent a flat or house to members of the transgender community. They will have to serve a jail term for two to six years.
The transgender bill will benefit large number of transgender persons, mitigate the stigma, discrimination and abuse against this marginalised section and bring them into the mainstream of the society, an official statement said. This will lead to inclusiveness and make them productive members of the society, it said.
Passage of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, which aims at empowering the community by defining and protecting their rights, is one of the priorities of the Social Justice and Empowerment ministry in the first 100 days agenda of the second term of the Narendra Modi government, an official source said.
As per the complaint filed by one of the victims, two sari-clad transgenders came to her house in Vasai area on June 16 and claimed her family had a "curse", and that they would help her get rid of it, police spokesman Hemant Katkar said.
This is the first time that transgenders voted under the category since the Supreme Court had declared them as "third gender" in 2014.
Amitabh Bachchan will step into the shoes of a transgender woman whose ghost will possess Akshay Kumar in Raghava Lawrence’s Tamil horror comedy Kanchana- Muni 2.
The wedding took place as per Hindu traditions including pre-wedding rituals of haldi, mehendi, engagement and sangeet organised a day before marriage on Friday.
Navratilova had written that it was "cheating" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport as they have unfair physical advantages.
Welcoming Reddy to the Mahila Congress, the AIMC president said the activist's dynamic personality will be an asset for the party's women's wing.
The 27-year-old model Angela Ponce makes history as first transgender woman to compete in Miss Universe pageant this year.
In 2013, the government set up an expert committee to examine issues related to transgender persons. The committee stated that transgender persons faced issues of social stigma and discrimination.
The transgenders alleged that the police harassed them and said they were not banned from darshan at the shrine, but the police said there was a need to get some legal clarity in this issue.
Petitions, asking the justices to take up the issue in three separate cases that were still in lower courts so it could be decided definitively this term, were filed by Solicitor General Noel Francisco on Friday.
Police have registered a case of obscenity in public against the four persons.
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