Government has asked the Universities to include a column for transgender category in all application forms, academic testimonials and other relevant documents.
Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla told Rajya Sabha today that the UGC has also informed that it has issued directions to all its bureaus to ensure that the forms and proformas of all the schemes being operated by it have a column for the transgender in gender category. He said the Supreme Court in its judgement in 2014 had directed that eunuchs, apart from binary gender, be treated as third gender for the purpose of safeguarding their rights under under the Constitution.