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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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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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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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