Gayathri T & Shaik Shahad Salahuddin, B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons), Crescent School of Law, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology
ABSTRACT
The 2011 census has reported that 4.3 million people of India are transgenders. Transgender is a word relating to being a person whose gender identity differs from the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth. The literacy rate of transgender in India is 56.07% as per the 2011 census.1 96% of the transgender in India are not employed and are thereby pushed to the brink to take up low paying or discreditable and humiliating work for their subsistence according to the national human rights commission in 2008. 50-60% of the transgender have never been to school. NHRC has submitted that 23% of the transgender are forced to work as sex workers in a report. The right to life and liberty, the right to equal opportunities in the matter of public employment and right to equality has not reaped in the case of transgenders, so an additional statute was introduced exclusively to protect the rights of the transgenders, the transgender persons (protection of right) act, 2019. Education and employment help one to uplift themselves economically and socially. Education plays the major role to meet the needs of the job one has. Employment helps one to fetch daily bread needs, develop the demand of quality goods and services and also helps in the overall growth. Employment decreases the social gap of a person and also improves the status of persons welfare in the long run. Therefore, separate reservations for the transgender persons are essential as the education and employment of a person only helps to uplift oneself and also to uplift one’s society.
