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The 2025-2026 baseline survey connected sex minorities successful Karnataka has recommended 1% preservation successful backstage assemblage jobs for radical from sex minorities successful the State.
“It is important that not lone the government but besides backstage companies supply employment opportunities to sex minorities,” reads the study that was submitted to the Karnataka authorities connected January 24, 2026.
The Karnataka Government presently provides 1% horizontal preservation for transgender persons successful each authorities services.
The archetypal of its benignant workout successful India, conducted by the Department of Women and Child Development and the Karnataka State Women’s Development Corporation, has recorded 10,365 sex number individuals successful the State.
Violence and humiliation
One of the recommendations successful the report includes the constitution of a sex number payment board.
The survey found that some forms of unit and favoritism against sex minorities successful astir 40% schools and colleges. According to the report, 25% adults and 46% children from the assemblage person requested financial assistance for education.
Around 40% are not accepted by household members. It was besides recovered that 90% of the assemblage members faced instances of violence, discrimination, or humiliation astatine hospitals.
The report, therefore, recommends financial assistance, enrollment successful hostels connected priority, coaching for competitory exams and assistance schemes for the acquisition of individuals from sex minorities, organisation of Ayushman Bharat cards for each assemblage members and schemes for sex affirmation surgery.
Housing, abstracted toilets, peculiar camps
Noting that 15% of assemblage members unrecorded with their parents, 17% successful abstracted houses, and a ample fig of them connected the streets, the report suggests providing lodging facilities for them.
Other recommendations include separate toilets and waiting rooms in nationalist places, rehabilitation initiatives, peculiar camps for organisation of ration cards, and awareness programmes for the public, families and officials to forestall unit and favoritism that individuals from sex minorities face.
Top districts
The 45-day agelong survey of sex minorities crossed 31 districts identified 10250 individuals above the property of 18 and 115 children. Most number of individuals were recorded successful Vijayapura (1,428), Chikkaballapur (1,252), Bengaluru Urban (757), Kolar (638) and Belagavi (618.)
As per the survey information, 3,497 assemblage members belonged to scheduled castes and 1,369 to scheduled tribes.
The 2011 Census had recorded 34,283 sex minorities successful the State. Prior to the 2023 election, the Chief Electoral Officer estimated that 42,756 transgender individuals successful the State were eligible to vote.
