First School For Trans People To Open In India
Guddi Kinnar, a trans woman in India, has “pooled funds” with 140 other trans people to build the first trans education centre in northern India.
The centre is to be built in Uttar Pradesh, the start with the highest number of trans people in India, to help trans people get better job opportunities.
“People disown trans children, and we look after them. We don’t have a school, no employment option,” Kinnar told the ‘Thomson Reuters Foundation’.
At first, the education centre will have “a primary school for children up to the age of 10 with plans to develop it into a college and a university in the future.”
Kinnar said of the centre that “here they will get an education, they can choose any profession they want. I am not (investing savings) for my personal gain; it is for my community.”
From the 500,000 trans people who live in India less than half are literate and even fewer have jobs.
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