(Eds: Recasts overnight story)Bengaluru, Oct 27 (PTI) The Karnataka cabinet has clearedthe State Policy for Transgenders, 2017 with an aim ofbringing the community into the mainstream and safeguardingthem from exploitation.
The policy had been drafted in compliance with a SupremeCourt order, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T BJayachandra told reporters here after a cabinet meetingyesterday.
"They face insecurity, discrimination, insults, anxiety,suicidal tendencies. Therefore, this policy aims at bringingthem into the mainstream of society and provide them witha secured life," he said.
The different categories of transgenders mentioned in thepolicy include "jogappa, jijra, female to male, male tofemale, inter-sex, kothis, jogtas, shivashakti and aravanis".
The policy aims to create awareness about the transgendercommunity in all educational institutions of the state, reachout to family members through anganwadi workers to sensitisethem about trans-children, bring into place a monitoringcommittee or cell at educational institutions to addressissues of discrimination, sexual abuse and violence againsttransgenders.
It also moots defining the indicators for a friendlypolicy, which goes beyond non-discrimination, and to includethe transgender community in the 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan',Right to Education and similar efforts to promote literacy.
Jayachandra, quoting from the document, said, "All levelsof formal education system should have reservation fortransgender students." PTI KSU VS RCDV.
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