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For decades, Sunil Babu Pant has been at the forefront of the country's groundbreaking campaign for gender and sexual minority rights. But he's still looking for more.
The government of Nepal should urgently create a clear, simple, and rights-respecting procedure that would allow transgender and third gender people to obtain official documents in accordance with their gender identity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While Nepali policy allows in principle for transgender to people to obtain documents marked “other,” implementation is piecemeal and those who want “male” or “female” as their legal gender are forced to undergo invasive and unnecessary medical interventions and examinations.
The organisation concluded 2022-2023 LEAD Course with a graduation ceremony.