India's top court yesterday issued a landmark verdict recognizing transgender rights as human rights, saying people can identify themselves as a third gender on official documents, the Huffington Post website reports today (April 16, 2014).
The Supreme Court directed the federal and state governments to include transgendered people in all welfare programs for the poor, including education, health care, and jobs to help them overcome social and economic challenges. Previously, transgendered Indians could only identify themselves as male or female in all official documents.
The decision was praised as giving relief to an estimated three million Indians who are transgender.
The court noted that it was the right of every human being to choose their gender while granting rights to those who identify themselves as neither male nor female.
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