TheOdishaState Legal Services Authority (OSLSA), along with NGO Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII), launched a legal aid clinic for transgender people.
Under the initiative, various facilities such as support in terms of legal Literacy, access to entitlements and services, including transgender identity cards, and protection and in cases of Human Rights violations will be provided to transgenders.
The legal aid clinic, the first-of-its-kind in Odisha and third in India, will benefit the transgender community in availing of free legal aid services.
A large proportion of violence and discrimination was perpetrated by general public (37%), followed by parents, sibling and other biological family members (17%).