Government has accepted the recommendations of the Technical Advisory Committee to include transgenders as a separate 'Others' category in the Census 2011. The Home Ministry has given nod for providing a third category other than male and female.
Transgenders would be given separate code i.e. '3' in the names of others, the '1' and '2' being meant for male and female respectively during the ensuing Census 2011." "
The Planning Commission, meanwhile, has also recommended separate category for the transgenders in the Unique Identification Authority of India Project, according to a separate RTI reply from the Commission. — PTI
Transgender is a blanket term that covers all people whose sense of gender identity does not match their physiological sex. The most probable cause is a variation in hormone levels at a critical point in pre-natal development, probably around the twelfth week, which in turn causes the brain to develop gender characteristics that do not match the physiological or genetic gender of the developing fetus.Most transgendered people are aware of their difference at a very early age. Cross-gender behavior patterns, including cross-dressing, typically appear by age 5.
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