Our Formation Story

Kinnar Asmita, was set up in 2010 as a Public Charitable Trust to promote transgenders’ rights in the Thane district of Maharashtra. Kinnar Asmita is the first community-based organisation (CBO) initiated by a group of transgender activists under the leadership of Ms. Neeta Kene in the Thane district. The organisation is governed by the guiding Principle –by the community, for the community, and of the community to strengthen community participation in all spears of life. raise issues and concerns. Since its inception, the CBO has been transforming the lives of the transgender community by following a grassroots approach – educating, being aware and empowering, and voluntarily addressing the social, cultural, and economic discrimination faced by the transgender community in Thane. After persistently advocating with Government and Non-Government stakeholders for 2 years and having resolved numerous crisis and provided numerous services to the transgender community, the group got registered as a non-profit community-based organization in 2010 under The Societies Registration Act, 1860 and The Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950.