India’s first University for transgenders is getting ready

Transgeders are among one of the most oppressed minorities in the LGBTQ community.  To bring them into the social mainstream of society, the Uttar Pradesh government is readying India’s first transgender University, where education will be provided at subsidized rates from KG to PG.  Even research facilities and PhDs will be made available.  

The University is being built in the Fazilnagar block of Kushinagar district.  The Akhil Bhartiya Kinnar Siksha Seva Trust is looking after the building activities.  

While the Yogi Adityanath government has been lauded for the “progressive outlook” toward transgenders, some criticisms, too, are there.  “We should integrate transgender people in society rather than further alienate them by opening separate universities,” a Twitter user says.  Writes Hemant, “Rather the question should be why do we really need a separate transgender university? Why divide education based on gender?”