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As portion of the Pride Month celebrations, the Transgender Resource Centre successful Madurai connected Saturday conducted ‘Pride and Madurai 2026’ with absorption connected recognising the literate works of the transgenders.
Transgender Resource Centre Director Priya Babu said the item of this year’s lawsuit was the literate works of transgenders. Five books authored by transgenders were released astatine the event.
Autobiographies written by transmen Shivarudhran and Shakthi, and transwoman Manu and postulation of poems written by transwoman Roopa Evangelin and postulation of abbreviated stories written by transwoman Rajakumari were released.
Madurai District Social Welfare Officer R. Gandhimathi explained the payment measures and the schemes being implemented for the payment of the transgenders and Startup TN Project Lead Sakthivel Kaliappan explained the grants being provided to enactment the transgenders to tally startups.
Changemakers awards were presented to a full of 12 persons. They were felicitated for the relation they played successful supporting transgenders with respect to providing solutions to issues, acquisition enactment oregon fiscal support.
Trangender literature, people artist, societal worker, dependable of equity were immoderate of the different awards presented astatine the event.
Some of the different events held arsenic portion of the celebrations included the endowment amusement wherever transgender persons displayed their talents. An accumulation of the paintings depicting the historical, literate and mythological narratives astir transgenders was besides held arsenic portion of the celebrations.
Transgenders from crossed Tamil Nadu, authorities officials, industrialists, societal activists, students and volunteers participated successful the event.
