Anantapur issues ID cards to transgenders, first in State Updated: Updated: This will help the community in availing schemes Share Article AAA District Collector Gandham Chandrudu handing over identity cards to transgender persons at Collector’s office in Anantapur on Saturday. | Photo Credit: R.V.S. PRASAD This will help the community in availing schemes Assuring them of all support, District Collector Gandham Chandrudu handed over identity cards to 61 transgenders on Saturday, which would help them avail government schemes. Anantapur is the first district in the State to issue identity cards to the community, which specifies their gender, and provide them help under the provisions of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. The authorities have promised to provide them with house sites and take the responsibility for building houses under the government scheme.