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Transgenders Say They Still Face `Harassment` in City
Indian Express Kolkata , 3/19/2010
The Delhi High Court’s judgment decriminalising homosexuality has hardly made any difference to the rate of gay hate crimes in the city, it was revealed at the State Consultation for MSM and Transgenders organised by MANAS Bangla in Science City today.
What societal images do the words children of sex workers or prostitutes - male or female or transgender and the like bring to you? Is it of those living in and looking through windows of poverty and dirt, oppressed and waiting to be rescued?
India does not have a very good record when it comes to the representation of women in Parliament. What makes the representation even more skewed is the fact that most women MPs belong to privileged, political families.
A self-proclaimed lesbian couple is trying to break free from a society that is outright conservative if not obscurantist. And once things were out, living has not been that easy for this ‘couple’ of the steel city.
With the women`s reservation bill getting through the Rajya Sabha hurdle, sexual minority groups in Kolkata are now seeking a similar quota for themselves as well as reservation in other fields such as health, education and employment.