Indian activist Grace Banu wants more rights for the transgender community
Transgender rights activist Grace Banu says that the struggles of the LGBTQ+ community in India need to be understood through the lens of caste and class privileges.
She recently petitioned an Indian court seeking "horizontal reservations", or separate quotas for transgender people in government jobs, within the existing quotas for historically disadvantaged communities. .
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