Since ages, in the Indian society the whole importance has been given to the two main genders; male and female but hardly any significance been bestowed to the third gender. However it is also true that since a long time a debate over whether to or not to include the third gender in the social system had been going on but the results were visible only the last year when the Indian Supreme Court declared the transgender community as the legal third gender and also granted them privileges to education, health benefits, employment and minority rights. People belonging to the third gender or the Trans genders have been facing and living a much undignified lives in the Indian society. Our Indian social system has not been supportive to the Trans genders and in fact these people have been subjected to non-acceptance, menial mentalities, struggles and discrimination in our country. But for the first time ever in the Indian history of Trans genders’ a transgender woman has been appointed as the reputed principal of a women’s college in West Bengal. Manabi Banerjee happens to be the first ever transgender woman to head the Krishnagar Women’s College in Bengal. This news has brought a new dimension in the perceptions of the people to look towards the Trans genders, the Indian transgender activists have taken this incidence as a very proud moment for themselves and are happy to know that their community people are now being given respect, dignity and equality which they have always deserved. This is in fact a proud moment for the whole Indian society and moreover shows the growth and advancement in the mentalities of the people. It shows that the people of India now understand that having a third gender is not a crime. These people also deserve equal rights and privileges which the other two genders have been fully relishing so far.
