In the above presentation, one of our changemakers Shubham Choudhary talks about the LGBTQAI+ community in India, understanding various genders and how transgenders are struggling to make ends meet in the present pandemic situation.

3. LGBTQIA+
Community
Let's make this world a more accepting place
Author: Shubham Choudhary
Grade: 12
Date: 07/06/2020

4. 1 What are some affiliated terms?
2 Some hidden obscure sights
3 How is their life?
Content

5. PART
ONE
Let's understand the
terms related to gender,
sex and sexualities.

6. Terms related to Gender
1. Cisgender 2. Bigender
3.Agender
Terms related to Sexuality
1. Homosexual 2. Heterosexual 3. Bisexual
4. Asexual
Terms related to Sex
1. Male 2. Female
3. Intersex

7. Description of terms related to GENDER
Gender identity is how we feel in relation to being male or female, it can be
different than our biological sex. Gender is a personal concept, people
shouldn't make judgements based on someone’s gender expressions.
1. Cisgender: A person whose gender identity and biological sex assigned at
birth are the same.
2. Agender: A person who doesn't identify with any gender. They describe
themselves as gender neutral or gender less.
3. Bigender: A person who fluctuates between "male" and "female" gender
based behaviours.
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8. Description of terms related to SEXUALITIES
Sexuality is a person's sexual orientation or preference.
They are broadly classified as two types: Homosexual and Heterosexual
• Homosexual: A person who is sexually attracted to people of their own sex.
Female homosexual are called as Lesbian and Male homosexual as Gay.
• Heterosexual: A person who is sexually attracted to people of the opposite
sex. Boys who like girls and women who like men are heterosexual.
• Bisexual: A person who is sexually attracted toward both males and females,
or to more than one sex or gender.
• Asexual: A person who is not attracted to any gender.
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9. Terms related to SEX
• Male: A person who has male genitals ( penis)
• Female: A person who has female genitals (vagina)
• Intersex: Individuals born with any of several variations in sex
characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals.
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Sex refers to physical or physiological differences between males
and females, based on primary sex characteristics (the reproductive
system)

10. Asexual people may still look for love and companionship, even if they
don't crave sexual relationships. However, even Family and friends
often react with disbelief at this. One person was told: ‘You’re not a
tree’
Being straight, gay, or bisexual is not something that a person
can choose or choose to change. Just as, people don't
choose their height or eye color.
Correcting some Myths about LBGTQIA+

11. PART
TWO
Let's dive into the hidden
and obscure part of our
world.

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13. How's this pandemic treating them?
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"The situation is very bad. I've barely had any clients in the last 10
days. If things continue this way, I'll die," said Shonali, 24, who is
also HIV positive.
"There is talk about aid for labourers, the poor, but why is no one
talking about us? We are just invisible to everybody” said one
respondent
Most of them are surviving only by funds different
organisations are able to raise.

14. Some obscure SIGHTS
• Around 50 to 60 percent of transgenders have never attended schools and faced discrimination.
• Around 57 percent are keen on getting sex-alignment surgery but don’t have money for it.
• 18 percent of them are physically abused, 62 percent are verbally abused in school. 15 percent are
harassed by students as well as teachers.
• Around 99 percent have suffered social rejection on more than one occasion, including from their family
while 96 percent of transgenders are denied jobs and are forced to take low paying or undignified work
for livelihood like badhais, sex work and begging..
• Transgender women are around 49 times more likely to be living with HIV than other adults (WHO)
• In India, total population of transgender is around 4.88 Lakh as per 2011 census.

15. • Lesbian women are subjected to family-sanctioned corrective rapes, which are often
perpetrated by their own family members.
• Village medics and babas often prescribe rape to cure lesbians of homosexuality.
Refusal to marry brings more physical abuse.
• Most LGBT people are acceptable to family only if they agree to behave like
heterosexuals.
• 1 out of every 5 transgender adults have at least one or more chronic condition such
as diabetes, arthritis or asthma

16. PART
THREE
Empathise with them by
understanding how
unacceptance and
bullying affects them
and the choices they
make.

17. ● Why she left her home? My family members were open to my uniqueness, it was the
neighbours who forced me to be what they thought was me. People started mocking
me and I couldn’t bear to see my family in pain .
● Why she stopped trying for jobs? I was tired, tired of people bullying me for being different.
Regressive mindset of people that prohibits them from befriending me.
Sanjana's unheard story
● What do you want to tell people around you? A lot of people have it in their head that we
decide to be trans. I want people to know nothing has happened in my life to make me
trans. I was born trans.
Mother of 7 trans women, and the grandmother of 5 adopted grandchildren.
None of them were related by blood, but by choice and love.

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Their stories
Akkai Padmashali, a former sex worker and a woman transgender who became a
human rights activist. Tortured at home and in society, she speaks boldly about her
experiences and motivates others to speak up. “I used to play with girls a lot. One day
my father brought me home and poured hot water on my legs. He said that if I didn’t act
as per society’s norms, this was my punishment,”
“People should be more humane. They should respect us as human beings and
consider our rights as transgenders,”
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, founder of the Asia Pacific Transgender Network, have
raised the public visibility of India's transgender women, who have traditionally
been treated with suspicion.

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• On 15 April 2014, the Supreme Court of India ruled that
transgender people should be treated as a third category of
gender and as a socially and economically “backward” class.
• Rajya Sabha passed the Rights of Transgender Persons Bill,
2014 guaranteeing rights and entitlements, reservations in
education and jobs, legal aid and more, as well as provisions to
prohibit discrimination.
Efforts by the Indian government
• On September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of India in Navtej
Singh Johar and Ors. v. Union of India effectively, allowed
sexual intercourse between consenting adult members of the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ("LGBT") community.

20. Indian transgender activist, artist, poet,
actor and inspirational speaker. Kalki is
the founder of Sahodari Foundation
Humsafar Trust is an NGO in Mumbai
which promotes LGBT rights.
Founded in 1994
Founder of Gaysi, an online
platform for LGBTQ+ people
to express themselves.
Kalki Subramaniam Ashok Row Kavi Priya Gangwani

21. Organizations you can reach out to,
To receive Help or To offer help
Sahodari Foundation
Humsafar Trust
Queerala
Naz Trust
Sangama
Good As You

23. Sources
❖ https://young.scot/get-informed/national/gender-identity-terms
❖ https://clpr.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Rajya-Sabha-Debates-on-the-Transgender-Persons-Protection-of-Rights-Bill-2019-1.pdf
❖ https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/about-96-of-transgenders-are-denied-jobs-60-have-never-attended-schools-study-2836281.ht
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❖ https://www.who.int/hiv/data/en/
❖ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/First-count-of-third-gender-in-census-4-9-lakh/articleshow/35741613.cms