Last Tuesday (15), India recognized a third gender for transgender people and eunuchs who identify with neither the female nor the male sex. From now on, this third gender will have recognized rights. “Recognition of transgenders as third gender is not a social or medical issue but a human rights issue,” said Justice KS Radhakrishnan. “Transgender people are citizens of this country and have the right to education and all other rights,” he added in the decision. It is estimated that there are millions of transgender people in India. At the beginning of April, Australia recognized the existence of a “neutral gender”, with an idea very similar to that adopted by India.
