Advisory highlights concerns related to education, health, property, and legal rights of transgender persons.
Transgender Person in India
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- Advisory 1.0 was issued in 2023.
Key highlights of Advisory
- Inclusion of distinct categories: such as ‘Intersex,’ ‘Transmen,’ etc. in the Census and surveys and separate from ‘transgender persons’ category.
- Intersex individuals are born with sex characteristics (Reproductive organs, chromosonal patterns Sexual anatomy etc.) that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies (UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner).
- Transman is a man who was assigned female at birth ie. despite physical characteristics of female, their gender identity is male
- Legal Reform: review laws, like Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969, Juvenile Justice Act 2015, and succession laws, to ensure recognition of self-identified gender
- Educational Inclusion: Admission to institutions based on self-identified gender without requiring medical proof, along with gender neutral facilities
- Right to Inheritance: Ensuring equal inheritance, succession, and housing rights without discrimination
- Protection of Intersex Children: Prohibiting coercive or non-consensual medical procedures on them, except in life-saving situations.
- Legal Support: Establishing dedicated legal aid cells, helplines and independent grievance-redressal mechanisms for transgender and gender-diverse persons facing discrimination, violence or custodial abuse;
- Others: establishing transgender-inclusive community shelters, gender-sensitisation training for teachers, etc.
