Participants in a meeting in Rajshahi city on Tuesday urged people to change their attitude towards the transgender people and demanded quota for them in education and job sectors.
Light House, a non-government human
rights organisation, organised the programme titled ‘Meeting with Different Occupational Groups’
at its office to give an overview of transgender and Male Sex to Male and finalise steps to protect their rights.
Resource person at the meeting said general people have a very narrow mindset regarding genderless people and they should change their mentality.
They said the government arranged quota for the people with disabilities in the education and job sectors but the transgender were neglected in this regard.
Being rejected by families, many grew up hating their bodies, and fall victim to depression, drug addiction, violence and suicide, they added.
Around 2.5 per cent people of the total population were genderless, they said, adding that most of them suffered for food and others basic rights of human being.
Speakers said the job givers tried to avoid offering job to the genderless people for which many of them led a very vulnerable life.
They also suggested that the movements favouring the transgender community needed to be initiated by the policy makers of the government and non-government sectors.
Light House programme coordinator Mustafa Kalimullah-al-Mamun, manager Mofazzol Hossain Razu, Rajshahi drop-in-centre manager Salauddin, Rajshahi Press Club president Anowarul Alom Fatik, senior news personnel Ziaul Gony Selim addressed the programme among others.
-With New Age input
