{"id":33325,"date":"2023-01-17T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33325"},"modified":"2025-04-19T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:48:05","slug":"integrating-transgender-concerns-in-schooling-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/integrating-transgender-concerns-in-schooling-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Transgender Concerns in Schooling Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Background in which the New Draft came?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the Key Highlights of the New Draft?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the Concerns Related to the New Draft?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the draft manual titled \u201cIntegrating Transgender Concerns in Schooling Processes\u201d has been released.<\/li>\n<li>The document aims to initiate a dialogue among the participants and bring to fore their experiences with transgenders and understanding of transgender concerns.<\/li>\n<li>It is prepared by a new committee convened by the National Council of Educational Research and Training\u2019s (NCERT) Department of Gender Studies head (Jyotsna Tiwari).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Background in which the New Draft came?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It came two years after NCERT removed a document (\u201cInclusion of Transgender Children in School Education: Concerns and Roadmap\u201d) on inclusion of transgender children in schools.<\/li>\n<li>Following an objection by the <strong>National Commission for Protection of Child Rights<\/strong> (NCPCR) to suggestions on gender-neutral toilets and puberty blockers, the old document has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>The NCERT has released a fresh manual, which avoids the usage of not just those terms but also references to caste system and patriarchy that were highlighted in the previous one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the Key Highlights of the New Draft?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diverse gender expressions have a long history of acceptance in India:<\/strong> It was documented in various art forms and multiple texts of ancient period, including epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata.\n<ul>\n<li>However, it avoids any discussion of the role of the caste system or patriarchy in maintaining stigmas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recognise people with diverse sexualities:<\/strong> It includes LGBTQIA+ communities and the present module is specifically focusing upon transgender persons by birth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommends the introduction of gender-neutral uniforms: <\/strong>From Grade VI onward, the schools can introduce gender neutral uniforms which are comfortable, climate appropriate, fit and do not conform to a particular gender.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toilets exclusively for transgender students:<\/strong> In case there is a toilet for Children with Special Needs (CWSN) that can also be shared by transgender students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the Concerns Related to the New Draft?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The two manuals (old and new), prepared by two different committees, <strong>are starkly different in nature despite dealing with the same subject<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Does not deal with all categories of gender non-conforming children: <\/strong>Thus, no information for teachers on dealing with children who may not be transgender but show signs of \u201c<strong>Gender Dysphoria<\/strong>\u201d.\n<ul>\n<li>Gender Dysphoria indicates psychological distress resulting from a conflict between a person\u2019s assigned gender at birth and the gender with which they identify or the \u201cagender\u201d category (neither man nor woman).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) How Indian schools can be made transgender friendly?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The draft manual titled \u201cIntegrating Transgender Concerns in Schooling Processes\u201d highlighted steps like recognise people with diverse sexualities, introduction of gender-neutral uniforms, exclusive toilets to make schools transgender friendly in India. Textbooks should provide all students with a critical lens to investigate a variety of issues such as diverse sexual identities and marginalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is Gender Dysphoria?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gender Dysphoria indicates psychological distress resulting from a conflict between a person\u2019s assigned gender at birth and the gender with which they identify or the \u201cagender\u201d category (neither man nor woman).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/education\/new-ncert-manual-on-transgender-students-silent-on-caste-patriarchy-8385856\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><u>New NCERT manual on transgender students silent on caste, patriarchy<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/sc-delivers-historic-verdict-section-377-gone-being-gay-no-more-a-crime-in-india\/articleshow\/65696771.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><u>ET<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tm41OHA1TGY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tm41OHA1TGY<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft manual- Integrating Transgender Concerns in Schooling Processes aims for dialogue on transgender concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}