Islamabad, April 27: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has directed the national database not to verify the sex of the trans-genders through a medical board and to amend its laws to declare eunuchs as she-males.
The directive was issued to the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
The order was issued while the bench was hearing a case filed by Muhammad Aslam Khaki, a lawyer who has been campaigning for the rights of transgender people.
Khaki told the court that NADRA had set a complicated procedure for issuing identity cards to transgender people and was asking them for documentation to confirm their gender.
Members of the transgender community too have expressed concern over what they described as NADRA’s complicated verification process.
-Agencies