In a first for the country, Tamil Nadu has issued a government order (GO) publishing glossary of Tamil terms to address LGBTQIA+ community members.Besides recognised terms like gay, lesbian, queer and transgender, it now has specific nomenclature for asexual, aromantic, pansexual people, and descriptions like gender fluidity, gender incongruence, gender dysphoria, etc. It calls conversion therapy aimed to ‘change’ or ‘convert’ people from queer to heterosexual as unethical and illegal, besides calling it result of superstitions and religion-based beliefs. READ MORE
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