DLSA steps in to help with transgender certifications, mediate with collector
DLSA steps in to help with transgender certifications, mediate with collector
ByArchana MoreArchana More / Updated: Mar 3, 2021, 06:00 IST
rights, 2014 SC order on basis for deciding
gender
While the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019, cleared by the President in December that year, set down statutes to keep the community from being marginalised, its failure to incorporate a 2014
Supreme Court order recognising self-declaration as a valid basis for
gender certification has created a lot of confusion. Now,
transgenders have chosen to ignore the mention of surgery in the new Act and are seeking gender certification based on the earlier apex court order. On Saturday, when the District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) held a meeting with the representatives of the community to understand the problems they still face in procuring the certificates and offered its services to help the