Transgender persons who have undergone surgery to become women eligible for protection under Domestic Violence Act: Bombay High Court

The Court stated that the term 'woman' in section 2(a) of the Act, which defines an aggrieved person, is no longer limited to binary gender and includes transgender women who have undergone gender reassignment surgery.

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