TRANSGENDERS AND NRC

Often abandoned by their biological families, transgender people grow up

amidst others like themselves, but always largely outside the system, and hence
rarely have any documents
The objection applications available during the NRC process did not contain a
check box of “others” while marking sex of an individuals. This forced the
members of the community to accept mark male or female as their sex. The
exclusion, has thus, already begun.
The documents required to prove one’s citizenship, whether it is for the
National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, or the propose National
Population Register (NPR), require individuals to have agency over their
functioning Indian society, a privilege that has not been accorded to many
groups.
Many transgender people do not have ties with the families they were born into,
many probably do not know the whereabouts of their families to procure such
documents. This entire process is in itself a tedious one and could lead to more
trauma than what this community already faces in the society.
The fight against CAA-NPR-NRC is intersectional and beyond just communal
lines which is a narrative that needs to be fed into the minds of people so they
understand the potentially long-lasting consequences of the law.