Gender: The Delhi government has directed all its departments, offices, district authorities, municipal corporations, state-run companies, along with the Delhi Police to build separate and exclusive toilets for transgender people at their respective offices in the national capital.
If the construction of toilets cannot be done immediately, the government has asked that toilets available for persons with disabilities (PwD) should be designated for use by transgender persons for the time being. Such toilets will display symbols for both PwDs and “T” for transgender persons.
The deadline set for building these separate toilets is two years. The order also clarified that trans people can continue to use gender-based toilets as per their self-identified gender.
Activists from the field, however, said that instead of building separate toilets which further marginalise people from the community, the government should provide for gender-neutral toilets in all buildings.
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