For endorsement: Gender nonconforming/trans/non-binary students’ Open Statement to NCERT and Education Ministry

The authors  are a group of gender non-binary, gender non-conforming students from various educational institutions, who have experienced the horrors of the gender non-inclusive education system. Both individuals and trans/queer groups may endorse the letter.

The full Statement is at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1739CSyu5q_xSeFvkUvfFXUQopYtLd3jZ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114555905071788929193&rtpof=true&sd=true

You can endorse the statement by clicking on this link https://forms.gle/4YK1ZH2Pn7q7aW1t5 

Any suggestion for addition or modification to the Public Statement can be mailed at huz208546@iitd.ac.in or Qiz208582@iitd.ac.in

Dear Peers,

I hope all of you are doing well.

I write to all of you on a sombre note because of the series of events that have transpired this month regarding the teacher’s training manual formulated and published by NCERT to make educational avenues more enabling, inclusive and accessible for transgender and gender non-conforming persons. The redaction of the manual and the institutional attitude of human rights oversight bodies signals worrying trends in India.

The purpose of this message is to seek your support and endorsement of the public statement that would be sent to important stakeholders for their immediate retrospection and actions, failing which we* plan to seek legal remedy.

Your support, endorsement and suggestions will be highly valuable. In rage, we unite!

Link to the Statement – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1739CSyu5q_xSeFvkUvfFXUQopYtLd3jZ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114555905071788929193&rtpof=true&sd=true

The authors  are a group of gender non-binary, gender non-conforming students from various educational institutions, who have experienced the horrors of the gender non-inclusive education system.