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more-inSix months after the city’s first shelter for homeless transgenders was closed, the Greater Chennai Corporation is reopening another one. Officials said they were currently finalising proposals received from organisations to run the shelter for transgenders. The shelter for homeless transgenders was opened last year by the Corporation. “We have received proposals from 41 organisations, including transgender groups that are willing to run the shelter. Six months ago, it was shut down after the Corporation declared that it was ‘non performing.’However, the NGO claims otherwise..