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MADURAI: Coming to the aid of a 24-year-old
transgender, the Madras high court bench here
has directed the authorities to change her name
in her school final marksheet to her present
identity.
Allowing a petition by S Swapna, who has been
running from pillar to post to get her name
corrected to enable her get a government job,
Justice K K Sasidharan quashed the proceedings
of joint director of examinations (personnel) by
which her request was turned down on the
ground there was no procedure prescribed in
relevant rules.
The judge directed the petitioner to file a fresh
applicaiton and directed the joint director to
consider the same and issue marksheets with her new name.
Her troubles began in 2011 when she became a transgender and changed her name to Swapna
from Nazer. Though she got her name changed in the college and degree certificates, her inability
to do so in the school certificate cost her a job after she cleared her Group IV examinations for
clerical posts in government service in 2012.
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Coming to the aid of a 24-year-old transgender,
the Madras high court bench in Madurai has
directed the authorities to change her name in her
school final marksheet to her present identity.
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Upon verification of certificates, the interview committee members raised questions about gender.
Though she showed them the gazette publication by which she adopted the new name, they
advised her to change the name in the SSLC and HSC mark sheets or to drop the present identity.
Petitioner said she had every right to live as a woman, and no body could compel her to shed her
present identity.
Subsequently, she appeared for Group II exams in 2013-14, results of which were yet to be
published. Initially, she was refused hall ticket over the gender issue. But after the high court's
intervention, she was allowed to write it.
She has also appeared for Village Administrative Officer test. She feared that her candidature
might be rejected in the two selections citing difference in names in certificates.
Hence, she sought a direction to the Director of School examination to issue fresh SSLC and HSC
certificate in her new name.
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8/20/2014 HC directs change of name in certificates of transgender - The Times of India
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These are small but welcome steps moving towards humane behaviour. When is India going to become fit for HUMAN habitation? Is this cesspool of blind prejudice, hypocrisy and cruelty (all in the name of tradition and culture) ever going to evolve into something approaching a NORMAL, modern, human society? Will the self-appointed guardians of morality and propriety ever shed their blinkers and treat all human beings as equals? When is the stranglehold of regressive, reactionary, recidivist bigotry going to loosen its grip on thenation?
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Good verdict .The rules should be changed so as to include transgenderstudents also to be included v in the name of the school leaving certificate asthat is the basic document for all exams and jobs.
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The HC ruling must be taken note of by all the states. Such a situation mayarise anywhere.
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NO ONE IS TRANSGENDERED FROM MOHANA TO MOHAN... Agree (0)
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Just look at the pic - horrible! These r diseased ppl in need of urgenttreatment.
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