India’s First Trans Judge Demands Govt. Job Reservations For Trans People

According to sources, she said that authorities ought to show more consideration for the needs of the people in her town.

NEW DELHI: Joyita Mondal, the country’s first transgender judge, has emphasized the importance of providing her community with employment preference in government positions, claiming that their inclusion in fields like law enforcement and railroads will alter public perceptions of them and facilitate their upward mobility. According to Mondal, her community also requires enough numbers of shelter homes in the nation, and the government ought to start a programme in this direction.

“Giving the transgender community preference in government employment is crucial. Who will feed me if I don’t have a job?” After attending the “Lit Chowk” cultural and literary festival on Friday, Mondal told reporters. She claimed that if transgender people are admitted to the police and the railroads under the provisions of the reservation, it will not only assist the community’s members in advance in life but also alter society’s perception of them.

She said that authorities ought to show more consideration for the needs of the people in her town. Mondal became the first member of her community to hold a position of this nature in the nation when she was appointed a judge in the Lok Adalat of Islampur in West Bengal in 2017.

According to the sources, Vidya Kamble, a transgender activist, was chosen as a member judge in a Lok Adalat in Nagpur, Maharashtra, at the beginning of 2018. Later that year, Guwahati-born Swati Bidhan Baruah became the third transgender judge to preside over cases in the nation.

Sources also claimed that the Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court last week that individuals of the third gender are eligible to apply for the position of police constable and that by February 2023, guidelines establishing norms for their physical examinations would be established.

Courtesy : The Sentinel

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