# transgenderdespatch.online ## Posts - [Singular fixation on ‘caste census’ in autocratic governance: A transgender position](https://transgenderdespatch.online/singular-fixation-on-caste-census-in-autocratic-governance-a-transgender-position/): There can be no doubt that data, in its presence and absence, is an essential tool for understanding the world we live in. However, the current unchecked focus on collecting or releasing census (particularly caste census) data to the exclusion of all other data in India can very well be seen as a pile of […] - [UGC-NET releases separate cut-off for transgender candidates for the first time in 2025: Is it enough?](https://transgenderdespatch.online/ugc-net-releases-separate-cut-off-for-transgender-candidates-for-the-first-time-in-2025-is-it-enough/): On 23 February, 2025, the National Testing Agency (NTA) released its UGC-NET December 2024 cut-off list. The UGC-NET (National Eligibility Test) is the competitive exam that determines your acceptance into PhD programmes, Assistant Professor vacancies, and eligibility for the Junior Research Fellowship. Despite having declared separate eligibility criteria, cut-off and other relaxations for transgender persons […] - [Karnataka guarantee schemes to be made accessible to transgender persons; transgender welfare board to be constituted soon](https://transgenderdespatch.online/karnataka-guarantee-schemes-to-be-made-accessible-to-transgender-persons-transgender-welfare-board-to-be-constituted-soon/): On January 18, 2025, the Vice Chairman of Karnataka State Guarantee Schemes Implementation Authority, S R Mehroz Khan assured the transgender community that he will work with the community and ensure access to the government’s five guarantee schemes to all transgender persons in the State. He made this commitment at a public interaction with community […] - [Will Karnataka state protect transgender right to education?](https://transgenderdespatch.online/will-karnataka-state-protect-trans-right-to-education/): On January 3, 2025 — the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule — I placed the following open representation to the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah. The representation seeks intervention by the State to protect my rights as a transgender person (specifically my right to education) as well as to secure substantive rights of transgender persons […] - [Domicile reservations, legal education, and conflicts of interest of judiciary](https://transgenderdespatch.online/domicile-reservations-legal-education-and-conflicts-of-interest-of-judiciary/): This is an argumentative piece looking at the concept of domicile reservations in Indian States from the specific perspective of National Law Schools. The purpose is to look at the state of legal education and the negative social engineering being achieved by these domicile reservations. Through this I will also try to underscore the question […] - [After relentless efforts of intersex activist Tamil Nadu government releases 2024 data on intersex births](https://transgenderdespatch.online/after-relentless-efforts-of-intersex-activist-tamil-nadu-government-releases-2024-data-on-intersex-births/): As per a news report appearing in the Tamizh daily newspaper “Daily Thanthi”, the Tamil Nadu government has released, for the first time, the record of intersex births for the year 2024. The data declares 40 recorded births of intersex infants across the 38 districts of the State. This data is the result of efforts […] - [Marking six years of the book burning protests against Nandini Krishnan’s Invisible Men](https://transgenderdespatch.online/marking-six-years-of-the-book-burning-protests-against-nandini-krishnans-invisible-men/): Six years ago, on January 10, 2019, the Socialist Students Union of Manipur (SSUM), ETA (Empowering Transgender Association) and Nupa Manba (transmen) and Nupi Manbi (transwomen) associations of Manipur conducted a public protest against author Nandini Krishnan’s book Invisible Men: Inside India’s Transmasculine Network (published by Penguin India: Nov 2018). The protests included the public […] - [One Nation One Subscription (ONOS): Dispossessing Ekalavya to feed Elsevier](https://transgenderdespatch.online/one-nation-one-subscription-onos-dispossessing-ekalavya-to-feed-elsevier/): Through what parliamentary process was a three-year outlay of 6000 crore of public money set aside to purchase academic subscription from global capitalist paywalled academic publishers? How and, more importantly, from whom will these costs be recovered? Can this transfer of substantial monetary resources to corporations located in colonial countries be justified against measly returns, […] - [The SC sub-classification verdict not revolutionary, just majoritarian angst: A transgender review](https://transgenderdespatch.online/the-sc-sub-classification-verdict-not-revolutionary-just-majoritarian-angst-a-transgender-review/): (including a response to Anand Teltumbde’s proposed suppression of reservation benefits) Since the Supreme Court’s 6:1 verdict on sub-classification and “creamy layer” has come to pass there have been multiple critical views on the matter. In this piece I review the judgment and put forward a few points for consideration. Among other things is also […] - [Transgender students to get one-time free changes in educational documents in Tamil Nadu: Government Order](https://transgenderdespatch.online/transgender-students-to-get-one-time-free-changes-in-educational-documents-in-tamil-nadu-government-order/): Further to a letter dated 29 February, 2024, submitted by trans person K Arun Karthick to the Higher Education Department, the Tamil Nadu government has now released an order dated 9 August 2024 providing for free change of name, gender and photographs in degree / diploma certificates. The one-time fee waiver will apply to all […] - [Not your Shikhandi: Eliminating Shikhandi for affirmative trans ideologies](https://transgenderdespatch.online/not-your-shikhandi-eliminating-shikhandi-for-affirmative-trans-ideologies/): I started working on this essay in 2020 but had to halt writing anything for a considerable period of time. Here I am sharing a slightly edited and expanded version of the same. Many may consider mythical influences a dead and discarded topic for discussion. Those who think this may be propelled either by a […] - [Long-term (FTM/NB) hormone therapy: Some key concerns for discussion](https://transgenderdespatch.online/long-term-ftm-nb-hormone-therapy-some-key-concerns-for-discussion/): The mainstream discussions around transgender healthcare in India has been around surgery – access, cost, perpetual discrimination, botched surgeries, experimentation. Hormone replacement therapies are an equally important area of right to life and health. As a long-term healthcare concern it too requires careful discussion, proper information and systemic changes in the healthcare delivery mechanisms. In […] - [A transgender review of Tamizh movie ‘Super Deluxe’ (2019)](https://transgenderdespatch.online/a-transgender-review-of-tamizh-movie-super-deluxe-2019/): Spoiler alert: If you haven’t watched it yet, you can watch the film before or after reading, depending on whether you like spoilers or not. The movie ‘Super Deluxe’ released in 2019 received much praise in the media for its concept, storytelling and for many the highlight was the ‘sensitive’ portrayal of a transwoman by […] - [Eviscerative equality and (the need for) positive discrimination laws](https://transgenderdespatch.online/eviscerative-equality-and-the-need-for-positive-discrimination-laws/): [This paper was submitted, out of competition, via email dated 24.6.2024, to the 11th Annual Conference 2024 of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination to underscore the issues with comparative equality and anti-discrimination from a transgender perspective, propose a complete return to positive discrimination, and also seek scholarship as a transgender person to […] ## Pages - [Contact](https://transgenderdespatch.online/contact/): You can write in via email: TDO.online_protonmail.com Or use the contact form below. PS: Email preferred! 🙂 - [About](https://transgenderdespatch.online/about/): This website is intended to publish my research and writings specifically around transgender issues in the geographic region of India. From time to time relevant news and other updates about events/incidents in the community, received directly from community members, will also be shared. What you want to know about me: Caste, Gender: I am a […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)