INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PRAYAGRAJ: Observing that a person has a constitutional right to change his or her sex through surgical intervention, the Allahabad high
court has directed the UP DGP to dispose of an application filed by a female police constable seeking permission to undergo sex reassignment
Justice Ajit Kumar observed that if a person suffers from gender dysphoria and, except for physical structure, her feelings and traits are
of the opposite sex so much so that that there is a complete misalignment of her personality with her physical body, such a person does
possess a constitutionally recognised right to get her sex changed though surgical intervention.I f we, in modern society, do not
acknowledge this vested right in a person, we would be only encouraging gender identity disorder syndrome
If psychological interventions to alleviate such distress as above fail, surgical intervention should become amust and should be
The court made the observations while dealing with a writ petition filed by an unmarried UP police woman constable who claimed to be
suffering from gender dysphoria and wished to undergo SRS to get herself ultimately identified and personalised as a male with a male
Appearing on behalf of the petitioner, her counsel said the petitioner applied for necessary sanction for SRS on March 11 this year before
UP DGP, Lucknow, but no decision had been taken in that regard and, therefore, the present petition was moved
their gender as male, female or third gender
It was argued that as per the 2014 ruling of the Supreme Court, wherein gender identity was declared to be an integral part of the dignity
The court has asked the state government to apprise the court whether the state government had framed guidelines as per the 2014 decision of
the Supreme Court to provide medical care to transgenders in hospitals and also provide them separate public toilets.
