ISSUE Whether transgender persons have the right to legal recognition of self-perceived gender? Whether persons who fall outside the male/female binary can be recognised as a third gender? KEY FACTS The National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA) filed a petition in the public interest, seeking the recognition of self-perceived gender identity and a “third […]
CHANCHAL BHATTACHARYA V. STATE OF WEST BENGAL
ISSUE Whether the educational board’s refusal to change Tamal’s name and gender in his educational certificates was wrong in law? KEY FACTS Tamal identified as male but had been assigned female at birth. He had struggled with gender dysphoria and, on the basis of multiple medical consultations, had decided to undergo sex-reassignment surgery. Tamal declared his name change […]