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Transgender persons who have undergone sex reassignment surgery suffering due to lack of passport: Delhi HC
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Transgender people, who choose to undergo sex reassignment surgery, face difficulties in acquiring a fresh passport due to change in appearance, an issue which needs to be streamlined, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.
Justice Subramonium Prasad said this while hearing a plea by a transgender woman, who has approached the high court seeking a direction to the authorities to re-issue her passport with her revised particulars, including new name and gender, since her appearance changed after undergoing sex reassignment surgery.
“Similar problems are arising in several matters and these people are suffering because of lack of passport after they changed their gender. Because then their appearance changes.
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