Facts: A transwoman who had undergone gender affirmative surgery and hormone replacement therapy and thereby completed medical transition sought to participate in the District Level Judo competition organized by the State of Kerala. An active sportsperson with experience in athletics, judo, and wrestling at the University level in the transgender category, Anamika’s application to participate […]
NATIONAL CADET CORPS V. HINA HANEEFA @ MUHAMMED ASHIF ALI
Facts: The Petitioner, Hina Haneefa, a transwoman had undergone gender affirmative surgical procedures and procured a transgender identity card as a female. She had enrolled as a student in the B.A History course and under the transgender category and had applied for recruitment to the National Cadets Corps (NCC). She approached the High Court of […]
QUEERYTHM & ANR. V. NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION
Facts: The Petitioners filed a writ petition being aggrieved by the discriminatory remarks and inhuman references used in the medical textbooks prescribed for medical courses in India against the LGBTQI community. Their argument was that the language used negative stereotypes and categorised sexual orientation and gender identity as a mental disorder or perversion. It was […]
XXX V. THE HEALTH SECRETARY, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH SERVICES, KERALA
Facts: A petition was filed by a parents of a child born with intersex variations seeking mandamus to conduct a genital reconstructive surgery to bring the child up as female. Though the Karyotype Report-46XX was indicative of the child being female, no doctor was willing to conduct the surgery without direction from a competent court. […]
HINA HANEEFA V. STATE OF KERALA
KEY FACTS: The Petitioner, Hina Haneefa, is a trans woman. She had undergone reassignment surgery and got a transgender identity card showing her gender identity as female. She had applied to be a part of the National Cadets Corps (NCC) but was refused admission to the Girls Divisions as she was a transgender person. She […]
KABEER C ALIAS ANEERA KABEER v. STATE OF KERALA & ORS.
KEY FACTS: A Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Kerala High Court by Aneera Kabeer, a trans activist seeking various reliefs relating to transgender people during the period of COVID-19 threat. The writ petition sought for measures by the state government for “the distribution of food ration, medicines, access to medical treatment, etc. to […]
QUEERALA & ANOTHER VS. STATE OF KERALA & OTHERS
KEY FACTS The government of Kerala passed an order in March 2018 granting special sanction to include the option “transgender” for identification in the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC). However, the option was only available to transgender persons if they had undergone sex-reassignment surgery (SRS). Queerala, an LGBTIQ rights organisation in Kerala, and Zara Sheikha, a […]
TESSY JAMES VS. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
KEY FACTS: Tessy James is the mother of an adult transgender woman. She filed a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that some members of the transgender community had taken away her “son”. She also argued that her “son” suffered from psychiatric disorders and required evaluation and treatment. ISSUES: The issue before the High Court was whether […]