Holding that the transgenders should be treated only as a special category irrespective of their caste, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to not bring them under either female or male category for education and employment.
Justice V Bhavani Subbaroyan in an order passed on June 12, 2024 said in ‘every employment and educational avenues,’ the government shall prescribe separate norms for transgenders. The government shall direct all the state recruiting agencies to specify transgender as a special category and prescribe separate norms for their cut-off mark.
The age relaxation open to other special categories shall also be extended to transgenders, irrespective of their caste, in future employment and educational avenues. The transgender at no point of time in future shall be brought under male or female categories, the judge made it clear.
