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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) agreed to analyse successful item a petition filed by intersex rights activistic Gopi Shankar Madurai seeking urgent safeguards for intersex children, including a prohibition connected non-consensual sex-selective surgeries connected intersex infants, and broad designation successful authoritative records.
“This is simply a precise bully issue. We privation to perceive this,” Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, accompanied by Justice Joymalya Bagchi, remarked.
The Chief Justice ordered the petition to beryllium placed earlier a larger Bench of 3 judges the adjacent time.
The petitioner, represented by advocator Astha Deep, urged the inclusion of intersex infants successful India’s colonisation Census, which presently overlooks this divers radical by enforcing binary enactment norms.
“This invisibility affects implicit 25 cardinal intersex individuals (1.7% of the population), denying them entree to welfare, healthcare, and individuality services. Inclusion of intersex successful the nationalist Census is important for close information postulation and policy-making,” the petitioner submitted.
The petition called for intersex designation alongside the existing antheral and pistillate options successful the Census and different forms, portion ensuring close signaling of births and deaths to alteration targeted policies.
The lawsuit underscored the captious request for the judiciary and authorities to separate betwixt enactment individuality and sex identity, and to clarify that intersex persons were not transgender.
“Sex individuality referred to innate biologic variations, including intersex traits that did not acceptable emblematic antheral oregon pistillate binaries, whereas sex individuality was a idiosyncratic and societal conception often involving a mismatch with assigned enactment (as successful transgender experiences). The conflation of these presumption successful laws, individuality documents similar Aadhaar and passports, and policies leads to forced interventions connected infants, discrimination, and erasure. Issuing cards that separately grounds enactment and sex is urged to uphold Articles 14, 15, and 21, fostering dignity and equality,” the petitioner submitted.
