AlertNet.org – Source: Reuters
Kathmandu (Reuters) – Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered the government on Friday to end discrimination against gays and guarantee sexual minorities the same rights as other citizens.
Nepali men and women who identify themselves as transgender say they are discriminated against in jobs and education, and do not get government identification certificates with their gender as the “third sex” instead of male or female.
Gay rights activists say they have difficulties in inheriting property in the Hindu-majority nation because they belong to neither the male or female category.