Every gender. Same respect.
Treat women, men, and transgender and non-binary people with the same everyday respect - use the name and pronoun they give you, and never mock, stare, or shut anyone out.
Here's the science
- What happensTreating a transgender person as lesser
- HowIndian law legally recognises transgender persons and forbids any person or establishment from discriminating against them in education, employment, healthcare and access to public services
- SoDenying a transgender person equal respect or access is unlawful, not a matter of personal preference
Official count - government recordIN
“No person or establishment shall discriminate against a transgender person on any of the following grounds”
This states the statutory right, not a measured outcome. The 2019 Act followed the Supreme Court's NALSA v. Union of India (2014) judgment, which recognised transgender people as a third gender.
Source: The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, Section 3 (Prohibition against discrimination) - Parliament of India (statute text reproduced by Indian Kanoon)(checked 2026-07-18)
And when we do it
A place where every gender is treated as an equal is simply a place more people can live, learn, work and move through without fear.
You couldn't have known. Now you do.