Manabi is currently associate professor in Bengali at Vivekananda Satobarshiki Mahavidyalaya
Participants at transgenders festival organised by "Pehchan" and the AIDS control society in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
Kolkata: India has for the first time appointed a transgender as the principal of a women's college. Manabi Banerjee will head the Krishnagar Women's College in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
Manabi Banerjee has been in news few years ago because of her transition and also a court case, has finally emerged as the principal of Manikpara College, where she was a Professor of Bengali Literature.
According to local official Dipak K. Kar, Banerjee is expected to start her new job on June 9. India's transgender activists have hailed the decision as a proud day for the community that usually faces discrimination. Last year, India's Supreme Court declared the transgender community as a legal third gender, granting them minority rights and privileges to education, employment and health benefits.
( Source : AP )
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