Encouraging projects to ensure gender justice, neutrality in institutions: Kerala govt

Additionally, facilities are being created in educational institutions and campuses for transgenders and where uniforms are worn by students, steps are being taken to make the uniforms gender-neutral, the minister said.

“An environment of gender neutrality and similar imagination is being created for female and transgender students in educational institutions and campuses,” she said.

Bindu also referred to the gender-neutral toilets at the well-known Government Maharaja’s College in Ernakulam district and said that it has become a topic of a raging debate in Kerala.

The debate was kicked off following a recent Facebook post by writer-columnist Ram Mohan Paliyath about his experience using the gender-friendly toilet during his visit to the college’s campus.

While a majority of the people who commented on his post, hailed the gender-friendly initiative of the college authorities as a progressive move, there was also a section of people who indulged in trolling and posting sarcastic remarks against the college and its students.

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