DELHI HC ON RECOGNISING TRANSGENDERS AS SEPARATE GENDER IN NCRB DATA

DELHI HC ON RECOGNISING TRANSGENDERS AS SEPARATE GENDER IN NCRB DATA

30th November 2020

The Delhi High Court to hear a plea seeking a direction to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), to recognize and classify Transgender as a separate third gender in their Annual Publication of Prison Statistics India. 

The petition relies on landmark judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of National Legal Services Authority V Union of India, AIR 2014 SC 1863 had unequivocally given legal recognition to the transgender, in addition to declaring their right to self-determination of gender in which it was also held that recognition of one’s gender identity lies at the heart of the fundamental right to dignity, and the self-identified gender can be either male or female or third gender. 

The claim of the Petitioner was that even after 6 years since the landmark judgment of Apex Court, the respondents failed to reasonably classify transgender as a separate third gender in their annual publication of the prison statistics India report.