In 2021, the duration of the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 in Bengaluru, two transgender women, Anandi and Aisha Kusar, had to sell earrings to make a living. The two trans women and a basic kitchen, stove, stove and kitchen to sell tea and snacks to Hudson Circle workers, with the determination to take care of their three adopted children.
While Anandi and Aisha were able to start a small company with the small amount of gold they had, many others in the transgender community continue to face significant challenges to access basic education, employment opportunities and support for EndoverPreneurship, Ashesfulaare, Ashare’s sexual minorities, hip, state government sex and local organizations remain limited.
Ignored in the state budget
The Karnataka government led by Siddaramaiah in March presented its budget for 2025-26, which did not mention the allocation of funds for sexual minorities in the state. Just after the budget, at a press conference, members of the movement for gender and sexual pluralism (MGSP) expressed strong Conerns about the continuous marginalization of sexual and gender minorities. The activists criticized the Prime Minister for “repeatedly ignoring” the needs of their community, despite several financial assignment appeals and inclusive policy reforms.
Manohar Elavarthi, a representative of the movement, said they had submitted five key demands before the budget, with the aim of improving the opportunities and well -being of sexual and gender minorities. Their demands included the introduction of a scheme of the dedicated well -being scheme for transgender individuals, increase financial support for entrepreneurs of sexual and gender minorities communities to ₹ 2 LAKH of ₹ 50000, free sex reassignment surgeries, employment in government work and the creation of a government agency separately to monitor and advance in its own definition.
The disappointment of the expression due to the lack of response, Elavarathi questioned why a budget demanding ₹ 4 Lakh Crore could not assign something for the elevation of marginalized communities. According to the 2011 census, Karnataka had a transgender population of 20,266, which now, according to the people of the community, may have duplicated.
Members of the coalition for sex workers and the rights of minorities of sexuality, the LGBTQ+ community and its supporters participating in the annual ‘queer karnataka in Bangalore on November 24, 2024. | Photo credit: K. Murali Kumar
It is not mentioned in the civic budget
The budget of Bhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for 2025-26 is not very promising either. The civic body has assigned ₹ 10 million rupees for the well -being of economically backward classes, which includes the transgender community.
The budget says that the BBMP will provide financial assistance to entrepreneurs by having 50% of the cost of the project or a maximum of ₹ 2 Lakh for only 500 eligible candidates of all backward classes. There are 9,182 transgender people residing in Bangalore in Bangalore as or December 2022, in accordance with the official records of the Urban District Commissioner of Bengaluru.
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Unlike Rekha, Meena (name changed), a 30 -year -old man, managed to be trained as a aestheticist, but still faces several obstacles. “I managed to complete the course of a aestheticist with the help of an NGO, but I still have a hard time paying for rent and buying products. For now, I work in a friend’s beauty or house services. It is difficult for transBordic saricians to get support from Toydomer’s government, establishing my sleep room.
Relief in guarantees
The transgender activist Akkai Padmashali says that the community welcomes the state government movement to extend five guarantees to the transgender community. However, they want more in terms of educational and labor opportunities.
Akkai Padmashali Transgender Rights activist. | Photo credit: K. Murali Kumar
“The budget in general lacks a focus on vulnerable sections, including devadosis, sex workers and others. If a person wants to start a business or a new company, the minimum requirement is ₹ 5 Lakh, but the government is not giving enough. The State must also overcome each city, the population of the trans community in Bengaluru is different from that of the Hubballi or Dhharwad community.” “.” “.” “.” ”
Akkai added that the community would soon meet with politicians, including the Minister of Development of Women and Child, Lakshmi Hebalkar, the Minister of Development of Bengaluru, DK Shivakumar, and the main minister, to demand a separate budget assignment for the transgender community.
Rakshitha mallikarjuna, a transgender guided Undo activist who focuses on the well-being of translated people, “it is disappointing that the state government has ignored our community in the last budgets. In the 2023-24 budget for individuals of the individuals of the community, when we have all fun of fun, we have all lived by the Pentaces for the Penta. 1,200, community individuals do not have fun in the community, do not have fun in the community, but do not have fun in the community, but do not have fun in all oxen, but do not have fun in all fun ships, but we were not in the community.
Vinod Kartavya, a social worker who has been working closely to the trans community for many years, argued that the trans community does not have anyone who to call his “family”, so they need additional support. “Their parents or siblings abandon the issue, which is not only emotionally traumatic, but also plays an important role in transgender people who do not have a permanent address and have basic documents or services such as a AADHAAR card, the GEEC ration, ration license license, ration license license, license license for ration ration, ration license, ration license, ration license, ration license, ration license, ration license, ration, ration license, ration license, ration license, license for ration ration of ration ration.
No Social Assistance Board
According to the Karnataka State policy on transgender – 2017, the State must have a well -being board so that the community protects the rights and interests of transgender people, ensuring access to welfare schemes and addressing any complaint. The Board is responsible for supervising the implementation of the policy, including the issuance of identity cards, the realization of awareness and initiative initiatives. But the board formation is pending for a long time.
“There is no progress in the Welfare Board at all. We are also demanding to have at least the person of the community as a representative in the Legislative Assembly or against being a political representative or a way of being within political circles.”
Vinod added that the government has faced difficulties in identifying transgender people. “The problem with the trans community is that they are nomads, that they move from one area to another, which makes it spread for the government to identify them. There are also men simply dressed in saris and wigs that are not really well, an ax of ay flee.
Published – April 14, 2025 06:18 am isth
