Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday released the Tamil Nadu State Policy for Transgender Persons 2025. The policy said that the State would take steps to amend the Hindu Succession Act, Indian Succession Act, among others, to ensure right of inheritance to transgender and intersex persons.
“The State will initiate action to ensure that laws against gender-based violence by family members, intimate partners and others are implemented effectively,” one of the provisions in the policy said.
The State would ensure that all educational institutions would change the name and gender in academic certificates of transgender and transpersons, as per the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
The policy further said that the State would provide preference to transgender and intersex persons under affordable housing schemes and provision of free house site pattas. “The State will facilitate short-stay homes for transgender and intersex persons.”
In another event, the CM virtually inaugurated new buildings constructed by the Police and Fire and Rescue Services Departments at a total cost of ₹45 crore. He also unveiled the foundation for the construction of buildings in the central prison campus in Madurai to be constructed at a cost of ₹229 crore.
