Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Nepal Supreme Court Rules Trans Woman Is a Woman

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Rukshana Kapali at her home in Patan near Kathmandu, Nepal, August 29, 2018. © 2018 Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court of Nepal has ruled that Rukshana Kapali, a transgender woman, should be legally recognized on all documents as a woman without having to submit to medical verification. The judgment is the latest in the court’s history of progressive rulings on sexual orientation and gender identity, which has earned Nepal a positive global reputation on LGBT rights.Following a 2007 supreme court order, authorities have been issuing…

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