World of Politics

Trinidad and Tobago: Tewarie tells religious leaders: Accept LGBTQI people

Caroni Central MP Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie has advised religious leaders to accept the world “as it is” and engage members of the LGBTQI community in healthy, respectful and rational discussions about strengthening the family.

India: Transgender bill seeks to "police, criminalize" a highly vulnerable community: PUDR

India’s well-known civil rights organization, People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), characterizing the transgender bill – currently pending before Parliament – “draconian”, has said that it “violates” transpersons’ freedom of association in intimate and personal relations by refusing to “recognize ‘families of choice’ among hijras as self-determined arrangements of care.” 

India: Transgenders hold rally opposing two bills

Transgender people of Telangana organised a massive rally in the city against Trafficking of persons (Prevention, protection and rehabilitation) bill and Transgender persons bill, 2018 on Saturday. The rally, which started at 12 noon from Goshala, Lower Tank Bund, went up to Dharna Chowk in Indira Park.