India To Accept "Third Gender" For Trans Voters

LGBT, NewsBites — By Speak Equal on November 12, 2009 at 5:13 pm

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Intersex and transsexual people in India have been granted in independent identity in the voter lists by election authorities.

CNN reports that before the decision, members of these groups — called eunuchs in Indian English — were referred to as male or female in voter rolls.

Now, “O”, for other, will also appear on voter forms.

This post originally published via the Advocate online

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