The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has constituted the National Council for Transgender Persons.
The Social Justice Minister would be the Council’s chairperson and its members would include officials from some other Ministries.
Five nominated members from the community - Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Gopi Shankar of Madurai, Meera Parida, Zainab Javid Patel and Kak Chingtabam Shyamcand Sharma are also part of the Council.
The council is formed under Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.