Trans ID portal

GS PAPER II: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.

Context: Just over six months after it was launched, the Centre’s national portal for issuing certificates of identity to transgender persons has issued 1,557 certificates, according to Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry data.

• Portal, which was available in English at transgender.dosje.gov.in, would be made available in five regional languages also by July to make it accessible to trans persons from across the country.
• The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 guarantees a transperson the right to self-perceived gender identity and a certificate of that identity from the government.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-six-months-trans-id-portal-has-issued-1500-certificates/article34835122.ece