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‘Tragedy is society’s blindness’: Madras High Court asks state to correct ‘historical wrongs’ against trans community

The Indian Express·Somya Panwar·about 1 month ago
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Madras High Court news: Observing that transgender persons are not strangers to our social fabric, and the tragedy does not lie in their birth, but in society’s blindness, the Madras High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a YouTuber accused of propagating false information over an incident of self-immolation by a transgender person. While it was alleged that the YouTuber created a misleading impression that the grievances of the transgender community were not addressed by the state authorities, Justice K K Ramakrishnan reviewed the content and said that the petitioner had retransmitted the news that had already been disseminated by several media outlets before his video.  The court also highlighted the plight of the trans community, saying, “Transgender persons are not strangers to our social fabric and the tragedy is not in their birth, it is in the blindness of society which, by exclusion and prejudice, has driven them into conditions of extreme marginalisation such as being driven to beg on the…

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