{"id":30249,"date":"2018-10-26T14:59:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30249"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:29:49","slug":"tackling-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tackling-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/tackling-prejudice\/article23386654.ece\"><strong>Tackling prejudice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a month after ShanaviPonnusamy, a transwoman from Tamil Nadu, wrote to the President alleging that Air India had denied her a cabin crew job despite her clearing the written exam, the Ministry of Social Justice sent a Bill on transgender rights to the Cabinet, with amendments as suggested by a Standing Committee<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, is a result of the 2014 Supreme Court judgment recognising transgenders as the third gender and safeguarding their rights under Article 21 of the Constitution<\/li>\n<li>Apart from welfare schemes for the community, the Bill also lists obligations of establishments as well as recognisable offences against the community<\/li>\n<li>Harassment of a transgender employee is an offence that carries with it a punishment of not less than six months imprisonment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What needs to be done?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Enabling environment: <\/strong>An enabling environment needs to be created, be it in education institutes or workplaces<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sensitizing workforce:<\/strong> In protecting the rights and dignity of the community<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementation of the laws:<\/strong> While laws to safeguard these rights are the first step, more important is to ensure their implementation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation of National Council for Transgender Persons:<\/strong> The Bill recommends the formation of a National Council for Transgender Persons that is tasked with monitoring and evaluating policies formulated for transgender persons<\/li>\n<li><strong>Representation in Rajya Sabha:<\/strong> This may pave the way for fulfilling the community\u2019s long-standing demand for representation in the Rajya Sabha.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Need of Vocational programs in creative fields:<\/strong> Leading voices from the community have called for vocational programmes in creative fields, a recommendation made by the Standing Committee too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Integration into the workforce is a challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>They Drop out:<\/strong>While they are recruited by State agencies, police departments, and home guards, many have dropped out, especially those undergoing gender transition<\/li>\n<li><strong>Making more money in traditional ways:<\/strong>Eunuchs say they make more money through traditional practices like\u00a0mangti\u00a0,\u00a0so why would they tie themselves down to a desk job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tackling prejudice What has happened? Nearly a month after ShanaviPonnusamy, a transwoman from Tamil Nadu, wrote to the President alleging that Air India had denied her a cabin crew job despite her clearing the written exam, the Ministry of Social Justice sent a Bill on transgender rights to the Cabinet, with amendments as suggested by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tackling-prejudice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tackling prejudice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913924},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}