Activists push for 'third sex' ID cards for Nepalese transgender people
by Rex Wockner
Bay Windows Contributor
Monday Sep 27, 2010
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The Global Forum on MSM & HIV has called on Nepal's Home Ministry to issue "third sex" citizenship cards to transgender people in accord with a 2007 Supreme Court decision.
"The legal verdict, which was the outcome of a lawsuit filed by the Blue Diamond Society, obligated the government to issue citizenship cards to transgender people...recognizing their gender as a 'third sex," the forum, known as MSMGF, said Sept. 19. "Despite lobbying by activists to move the Home Ministry to deliver on this ruling, transgender and meti individuals in Nepal today still do not have citizenship cards reflecting legal recognition of their gender identity."