Supreme Court expresses need for reforming social status of transgenders

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25 Oct 2013 4:57 PM IST

  • Supreme Court expresses need for reforming social status of transgenders

    Pointing out that transgenders have always been ostracized socially, politically and culturally, a petition has been filed by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) in the Supreme Court seeking for a grant of legal status of a "third and equal sex" to the transgenders.A Supreme Court bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri while hearing the petition which sought for a...

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