Thiruvananthapuram: Transgender persons can now register property under their identity

Thiruvananthapuram: The first registration of property in the name of a person belonging to the transgender community in Kerala, with gender mentioned as ‘TG’, was done in Chavakkad, Thrissur. Faisal Faisu, 38, also overcame the hurdle that others in the transgender community faced in registering land in their name, as the online system only mentioned gender as “masculine” or “feminine”. There was a provision to do so. , Faisu wanted to get the lands registered while maintaining her transgender identity. Additionally, the style is marked as ‘TG’ in all documents including your Aadhar Card. Faisu took the matter to the concerned authorities. Later, over a period of three weeks, a provision was introduced to mention the genus as ‘TG’ and to register land worth about five centavos in the office of the sub-registrar of Chavakkad. Faisu told DH that it appears this is the first land registration done by someone from the transgender community in which the gender is mentioned as ‘TG’. Faisu said, earlier, a member of the transgender community, who was assigned a house under the government’s Mission Jeevan scheme, had to mention his gender as “masculine” during registration because of this problem. Faisu, who works as a TG link worker under the National Mission, said, “After this registration, some other members of the transgender community tried to contact me and told me that they also wanted to buy land while maintaining their identity. Are.” Health