On July 30, India’s Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi offered an ‘apology’ for using the term “other ones” while referring to transgender persons in the nation.

After having sniggered, nervously chuckled and dehumanised the community, the minister stated that she was embarrassed by her “own lack of knowledge”.

In addition to her reaction, other parliamentarians thumped and laughed in parliament while discussing the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and (...)