National youth policy to target transgenders, gays and lesbians


Mahendra Kumar Singh, TNN Jun 1, 2012, 03.17AM IST


http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-01/india/31958364_1_gays-and-lesbians-transgenders-national-youth-policy


NEW DELHI: For the first time, the government is trying to focus on problems of transgenders, gays and lesbians with the draft national youth policy 2012 placing the social group in the targeted category that needs suitable policy interventions to deal with social or moral stigma.

"Transgenders have for long been the butt of ridicule and derision of society. They have virtually lived a life of complete segregation from the mainstream," said the draft policy, including them among the groups that suffer from social or moral stigma along with gays and lesbians and those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.