Transgender Education | Transgender Education in India with State wise Literacy Rates
Transgender Education is equally important like others, but on the basis of gender orientation, transgender’s children start facing stigma. This is the duty of administration and school management to ensure an adequate environment in school campuses because there are greater possibilities that different stigmas might be starting to affect the inclusion of transgender children.
Transgender Education in India
There is 4.9 lakh transgender in India according to Indian census 2011. According to the census, 2011 data on the general community have low literacy levels, only 46% transgender is literate. Which is very less as compared to 74 per cent literacy in the general population. Around 65% to 70 % population identified as transgender lived in rural areas. The highest rate of population in transgender in state Uttar Pradesh 28 % and the lowest rate of transgender in state Punjab 2 %. According to the right to education act (2009), the transgender community comes under the "disadvantaged group". Means transgender have 25 per cent reservation. Under the economic weaker section (EWS).
Transgender Education in India As per Indian Census 2011-
| State | Transgenders | Child (0-6) | Literacy |
| INDIA | 487803 | 54854 | 56.07% |
| Uttar Pradesh | 137,465 | 18,734 | 55.80% |
| Andhra Pradesh | 43,769 | 4,082 | 53.33% |
| Maharashtra | 40,891 | 4,101 | 67.57% |
| Bihar | 40,827 | 5,971 | 44.35% |
| West Bengal | 30,349 | 2,376 | 58.83% |
| Madhya Pradesh | 29,597 | 3,409 | 53.01% |
| Tamil Nadu | 22,364 | 1,289 | 57.78% |
| Orissa | 20,332 | 2,125 | 54.35% |
| Karnataka | 20,266 | 1,771 | 58.82% |
| Rajasthan | 16,517 | 2,012 | 48.34% |
| Jharkhand | 13,463 | 1,593 | 47.58% |
| Gujarat | 11,544 | 1,028 | 62.82% |
| Assam | 11,374 | 1,348 | 53.69% |
| Punjab | 10,243 | 813 | 59.75% |
| Haryana | 8,422 | 1,107 | 62.11% |
| Chhattisgarh | 6,591 | 706 | 51.35% |
| Uttarakhand | 4,555 | 512 | 62.65% |
| Delhi | 4,213 | 311 | 62.99% |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 4,137 | 487 | 49.29% |
| Kerala | 3,902 | 295 | 84.61% |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,051 | 154 | 62.10% |
| Manipur | 1,343 | 177 | 67.50% |
| Tripura | 833 | 66 | 71.19% |
| Meghalaya | 627 | 134 | 57.40% |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 495 | 64 | 52.20% |
| Goa | 398 | 34 | 73.90% |
| Nagaland | 398 | 63 | 70.75% |
| Puducherry | 252 | 16 | 60.59% |
| Mizoram | 166 | 26 | 87.14% |
| Chandigarh | 142 | 16 | 72.22% |
| Sikkim | 126 | 14 | 65.18% |
| Daman and Diu | 59 | 10 | 75.51% |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 47 | 5 | 73.81% |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 43 | 5 | 73.68% |
| Lakshadweep | 2 | 0 | 50.00% |
Education for the Transgender in India.
Once Upon a time, Indian transgender people are powerless in the Indian community. Indian Transgender people livelihood occupations are work dancing, and prostitution.
The contemporary usage, Indian transgender has become an ‘umbrella’ terms that is used to describe a wide range of identities and experiences, including but not limited to transgender people, male and female cross-dressers.
Indian First Transgender School.
First Indian Transgender School, The Sahaj International School in the southern state of Kerala is run by six Indian transgender activists. Currently, the school has open 10 students, including one disabled person, and a migrant. But the main objective of the facility is to eventually provide quality education to India transgender adults who dropped out of school at an early age. The school administration also wants to give vocational training to its Indian transgender students.
Problems faced by Transgender
The main problems that are being faced by the Indian transgender community are of discrimination, unemployment, lack of educational facilities, homeless, medical facilities, like HIV care and hygiene, depression, hormone pill abuse, tobacco and alcohol abuse, appendectomy, and problems related to marriage and adoption.
Rights of Transgender
Recognizing that non-recognition of the identity of transgender people is a violation of Indian “Articles 14” and Indian “Articles 21” of the Indian Constitution , the Indian Supreme Court classified them as belonging to a ‘third’ gender in April 2014 and directed the central and the state governments to provide them with reservations in educational institutions by considering them as ‘socially and educationally backward classes of citizens’. Further, Indian Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016 provides for inclusive education for Indian transgender students.
Articles 14
Indian Transgender, the first and foremost right that they are deserving of is the right to equality under Article 14 and Indian Article 15 speaks about the prohibition of discrimination on the ground of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.
Articles 21
Indian Transgender, Article 21 ensures the right to privacy and personal dignity to all the citizens. Indian Article 23 restrict network in human beings as beggars and other similar forms of forced labour and any contravention of these provisions shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law.
Legal Recognition for the Third Gender
In recognizing the Transgender category, the Indian Court ruled that fundamental rights are available to the third gender in the same manner as they are to males and females. Further, non-recognition of the Transgender in both criminal and civil statutes such as those relating to marriage, adoption, divorce, etc is discriminatory to the Transgender.
Transgender Health and Sanitation
Center and State Governments have been directed to take proper measures to provide medical care to Indian Transgender people in the hospitals and also provide them with separate public toilets and other facilities. Further, they have been directed to operate separate HIV/ Sero-surveillance measures for Indian Transgenders.
Transgender Police Reform
Indian Transgender, The policy organization should appoint a continuing committee to constitute Station House Officers and human rights and social activists to promptly investigate reports of gross abuses by the Indian police against kothis and hijras in public areas and police stations, and the guilty policeman is immediately punished.
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