Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Unmarried transgender children of Odisha government pensioners will be eligible to get family pension permissible to the spouse and children of an employee or pensioner who died after January 10, 2020, the Odisha government decided on Monday.
According to the change to the Odisha Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1992 cleared by the state cabinet, a single transgender child of a government servant/ pensioner who died on or after January 10, 2020, will be treated as an unmarried daughter in case there is no other elder unmarried daughter or disabled unmarried daughter for the purpose of family pension.
However, the transgender child must be above the age of 25 years and must be wholly dependent on the government servant/ pensioner. The OCS (Pension) Rules did not have any provision that covered transpeople earlier.
The state government’s move to amend the pension rules come nine months after the Orissa high court ordered payment of family pension to a transgender person as per provisions meant for unmarried daughters of deceased employees.
