The Transgender community to be formally recognised as the third sex and also to avail the benefits of socially and economically Backward Communities: the Supreme Court directs the Centre and the State Governments [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court directed the Centre and the State Governments to recognise transgender as the third sex and also to provide the benefits of socially and economically backward class.The Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice AK Sikri observed that the nonexistence of law recognizing transgender as third gender could not be continued as a ground to...