Make stand clear on rights of transgenders: SC to govts
Press Trust of India, August 14, 2013, 08:47pm IST
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/make-stand-clear-on-rights-of-transgenders-sc-to-govts/414337-3.htmlIrked over delay in filing of their response, Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre and state governments to make their stand clear by September 6 on declaring transgenders as citizens under a third gender category and giving them equal protection and rights.
A Bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan pulled up the governments for not filing their response on a PIL seeking equal rights for transgenders and said that it will pass order on the plea if they failed to do so by September 6.
The Bench was hearing a petition filed by National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), seeking its direction to declare transgenders as persons under third gender category and sought reservation for them in educational institutions and job opportunities either as a separate category or as a backward class.
