Help defend and protect LGBTQIA rights in INDIA.

The LGBTQIA+ community in rural cities in the District of  Tiruvannamalai and is also dealing with internal struggles. This isn’t helpful, as this community also faces discrimination, violence and oppression. In order to achieve the desired goal of the project.

Every day, all around the world, LGBTI people suffer from bullying, discrimination, exclusion, violence, imprisonment, even execution, and are generally at risk for their safety and their lives. The Statistics that in India, Every ten minutes, somewhere in the world, an Transgender dies as a result of violence. The Transgender who survive rape, beatings, and other forms of gender-based violence, are often stigmatized and isolated from their families and communities for every half an hour,  every half  an hour one Transgender is subjected to sexual abuse in work place and every10 minutes, one Transgender commits suicide or is murdered due to harassment mainly of sexual nature, do not give a comfortable feeling to any Transgender, living in India, in respective of the educational and social status.  It continues to prove that Indian Transgender are still poisoned in psychological lock-up.    The Daily News paper reports confirms the increasing number of incidences in which innocent women are sexually exploited.  Based on our observation, experience and from the news paper reports, the following forms of sexual abuses / violence / exploitation is common happening in the life of the majority of Transgender in the District.

1. The innocent Transgender working in unorganized sectors are sexual abused by colleagues and employers.
2. The employers sexually abuse young Transgender working under them.
3. The teenage Transgender are seduced in the name of “Love” and are forsaken to end up as unwed mothers.

The basic cause for all the above mentioned problems have been illiteracy and the gender biased nature of the society.  Transgender lack of Awareness on sexual health, sexual rights and safe sexual practices are also the contributing, leading to sexual exploitation.

Due to biased cultural binding and fear of social discrimination, Transgender silently bear the sexual abuse and violence within themselves.  The occasional complaint to the police do not bring them fair justice as most of the time, the police and judiciary sides with the offenders, influenced by money and the victim is being branded as immoral.  There is no independent forum or platform available to complain the grievances and get redressed for sexual atrocities against Transgender.

At a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals are an increasingly open, acknowledged, and visible part of society, clinicians and researchers are faced with incomplete information about the health status of this community. Although a modest body of knowledge on LGBT health has been developed over the last two decades, much remains to be explored.