Transgenders exercise franchise for the first time

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, May 12, 2018: As many as 14 transgenders  voted  at the Milagres polling booth  on May 12, Saturday. For the first time as many as 100 transgenders in eight assembly constituency limits in the district have secured voting rights.

 

 

Though  transgenders have been seeking voting rights since long, they never got an opportunity. However, the authorities had taken pains to identify transgenders and  giving them their right.  A total of 13 transgenders in Moodbidri, 8 in Mangaluru North, 56 in Mangaluru South, 13 in Mangaluru, 6 in Bantwal, 3 in Puttur and 1 in Belthangady have got voting rights this time.