Supreme Court ruling on Transgender rights
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“Marz, ya Lat”: in her Urdu short story Lihaf (The Quilt) written in the 1940s, Ismat Chugtai conceptualized same-sex desire as both medical condition and as excessive habit, notions that co-existed in the colonial India of her time.
The 19-page draft state policy for transgender people in Kerala (2015), prepared by the state’s Department of Social Justice is available for review and feedback here.
Twenty students and alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology have filed a petition against the Koushal verdict on Section 377.
A compilation of 15 days of Supreme Court hearings in the Naz Foundation case held in New Delhi in 2012.
Though not without its problems, the depiction of a gender non-conforming character in the film ‘Pariyerum Perumal’ is a laudable attempt to look at the intersection of casteism and violence against gender minorities.