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SC opens India's third eye : Transgenders win rights
The Telegraph | R. Balaji | New Delhi, April 15
The Supreme Court today accorded legal recognition to transgenders, commonly known as hijras, as a “third gender” and ruled they were entitled to all the fundamental rights, reservation in jobs and education, and separate public toilets.
The judgment therefore has no bearing on the penal code’s Section 377, which criminalises gay sex. Its key implications for the country’s estimated 19 lakh transgenders are: Governments must treat transgenders as a socially and educationally backward class and reserve jobs and college seats for them so that the “injustice (of) centuries could be remedied”.
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