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New Indian Express
01-08-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
TN policy for trans persons assures inheritance rights, access to education and jobs
CHENNAI: Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday released the State Policy for Transgender Persons, outlining a five-year roadmap to ensure dignity, equality and non-discriminatory access to identity, education, employment, healthcare, housing and public services for gender minorities. The policy states that trans persons will be treated as socially and educationally most disadvantaged. 'The state will take necessary steps to ensure their representation in educational institutions and government employment,' it said, without explicitly mentioning reservation. It is to be noted that the 1% reservation has been a long-standing demand of transgender and intersex persons of the state. The policy affirms the right of transgender and intersex persons to self-identify their gender (male, female or transgender) without medical treatment or certification. Hospitals, government and private, will be equipped to offer surgical procedures and related medical support. The state will develop standard operating procedures for gender identification and implement existing protocols for infants born with ambiguous genitalia. The state will update medical, nursing and allied health curricula to sensitise professionals to the needs of transgender and intersex persons. The policy also states that the government will explore the provision of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV transmission and monitor the implementation of standardised clinical protocols in transgender clinics.
The Hindu
31-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
T.N.'s policy for transgender persons advocates for amending Hindu Succession Act over inheritance
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday released the Tamil Nadu State Policy for Transgender Persons 2025. The policy said that the State would take steps to amend the Hindu Succession Act, Indian Succession Act, among others, to ensure right of inheritance to transgender and intersex persons. 'The State will initiate action to ensure that laws against gender-based violence by family members, intimate partners and others are implemented effectively,' one of the provisions in the policy said. The State would ensure that all educational institutions would change the name and gender in academic certificates of transgender and transpersons, as per the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. The policy further said that the State would provide preference to transgender and intersex persons under affordable housing schemes and provision of free house site pattas. 'The State will facilitate short-stay homes for transgender and intersex persons.' In another event, the CM virtually inaugurated new buildings constructed by the Police and Fire and Rescue Services Departments at a total cost of ₹45 crore. He also unveiled the foundation for the construction of buildings in the central prison campus in Madurai to be constructed at a cost of ₹229 crore. The CM also virtually inaugurated new buildings constructed by the Registration and Commercial Taxes Departments at a total cost of ₹27 crore. Ministers Duraimurugan, E.V. Velu, S. Regupathy, S. Muthusamy, P. Geetha Jeevan, P. Moorthy and M. Mathiventhan, Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam and senior officials were present on the occasion.
