Prithika Yashini set to become India’s first transgender police officer

Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) is to hire the country’s first transgender police officer.Bench led by Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, instructed TNUSRB to add transgenders as a “third category”.Government had to provide transgender people with quotas in jobs and education same as with other minorities also the key amenities.Yashini’s application for the post was initially rejected led her to move the High Court.Prithika Yashini was born as a boy named Pradeep Kumar but met with gender reassignment surgery to become a police sub-inspector.
Other achievements by Transgender in India
India’s first transgender principal
Manabi Bandyopadhyay is the professor(Krishnagar Women’s College) and first transgender person in India who has completed Doctor of Philosophy in West Bengal’s Nadia District.
Laws regarding Trans genders
- Adoption is permissible to transgender people.
- They have Right to change legal gender.
- No Equal age of consent.
- No Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services.
- Supreme Court recognized transgenders as 'third gender'.Now ,they will be allowed admission in educational institutions and given employment on the basis that they belonged to the third gender category.
- In April, Rajya Sabha passes historic private Bill to promote transgender rights. Still the bill has not cleared.