Currently approximately 20% of the world’s population are able to identify themselves as

“something else”—neither male nor female. In 2008, Nepal became the rst country to introduce a third gender category into the constitution. In 2011, the people of Australia were allowed to have an “X” in their passport rather than an “M”

or “F” to describe their gender.

In a historic ruling of the Supreme Court of India in 2014, a third gender category was created for transgenders (“Hijras”) and transgenders were legally allowed admission in educational institutions and employment on the ofcial basis of belonging to the third gender. If you travel to India today and ll out a visa application form, it will have three options for “gender”. Here is the full story:

https://tinyurl.com/lxnjshg Is there a third gender category in your country?

What is the legal status of third-gender people?