'Transgenders to be separate category in Census'

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Dear Friends,

 

Congrats all of your efforts have paid off, here to a first for the

transgendered – hijra folks.

 

'Transgenders to be separate category in Census'

The Technical Advisory Committee constituted by Registrar General has

recommended inclusion of transgender community in the census as a separate

gender and not as males as is the present practice.

In an RTI reply to Dr SE Huda of Bareilly based-NGO SSFA-ESFI, the Registrar

General has said that the TAC has recommended a separate category for the

transgender community of the country.

 

Kudos, we need to plan better to move ahead on this decision.

 

Regards

Ernest Noronha

Programme Officer-Sexual Minorities

HIV & Development Unit

United Nations Development Programme

55, Lodhi Estate

New Delhi - 110 003, India

91-11-46532450 Phone

91-11-24627612 Fax

e-mail: <ernestnoronha@...>