{"id":513627,"date":"2022-08-11T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T06:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=513627"},"modified":"2022-08-11T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T08:08:44","slug":"transman-from-kerala-hopes-to-take-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/transman-from-kerala-hopes-to-take-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Transman from Kerala hopes to take flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: For Adam Harry, a 23-year-old transman from Thiruvananthapuram, the dream of becoming an airline pilot got a tad closer to reality, with the Indian civil aviation regulator issuing guidelines for medical assessment of transgender pilot aspirants. <\/p>\n<p>Harry, who underwent a gender reassignment surgery last year, began his flying training in Johannesburg in 2016 as a female trainee pilot. The next six years were turbulent; he embraced his identify as a transgender person only to find his family sever ties with him and the Indian aviation regulator put hurdles in his path to be a pilot. His efforts to get the government to formulate guidelines for transgender pilot aspirants finally paid off with DGCA issuing a circular on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: For Adam Harry, a 23-year-old transman from Thiruvananthapuram, the dream of becoming an airline pilot got a tad closer to reality, with the Indian civil aviation regulator issuing guidelines for medical assessment of transgender pilot aspirants. Harry, who underwent a gender reassignment surgery last year, began his flying training in Johannesburg in 2016 as a female trainee pilot. The next six years were turbulent; he embraced his identify as a transgender person only to find his family sever ties with him and the Indian aviation regulator put hurdles in his path to be a pilot. His efforts to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}