Archived
Date and time: Oct. 17, 2020 11:00AM - 1:00PM
About the Speaker:
VYJAYANTI VASANTA MOGLI has worn quite a few different hats across the corporate and the social development sectors ranging from training design and delivery to Employee Engagement. Vyjayanti's preferred name is Vyjayanti and pronouns are _ she, her _and _her's_. She is a transgender human rights and RTI activist precipitating Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India & has volunteered probono with law & policy think tanks viz. Alternative Law Forum (ALF) & Centre for Law & Policy Research (CLPR). She has been a consultant with international LGBT non- profits like Asia Pacific Tran sgender Network (APTN) and International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA). In April 2020, she filed a PILin the High Court of Telangana which resulted in the High Court ordering the Telangana government to supply free medicines & rations to all tra nsgender persons in Telangana regardless of their possession or otherwise of ration cards in so far as they have anyone government ID proof. In July 2020, the High Court issued interim orders on her PIL instructing seperate wards for transgender persons infected by COVID 19 as transgender persons were being denied admission while there were sep erate wards for men and women but none for transgender persons. On the orders of the High Court, the Government of Telangana issued a circular too to that effect. In January 2020, she challenged in the Supreme Court the constitutionality and the structural inadequacies and monstrosities of the Transgender Persons ( Protection of Rights) Act, 201 9 in its current problematic form and sought specific reliefs. In February 2018, she got the archaic, colonial and repressive and Telangana Eunuchs Acts 1329F stayed and suspended by the Telangana High Court. Her other PILs include extenstion of welfare schemes like Aarogyashri and Ayushman Bharath to transgender persons. Along with her other transgender friends, she happens to be a Co-founder of the Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti (THITS), Queer Swabhimana Yatra (QSY), Telangana Queer and Transgender Janulu (TQTJ), all of which are people's collectives of queer & transgender persons. She also happens to be an alum of the International Visitors' Leadership programme (IVLP) of the United States Department of State.
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