Supreme Court steps in after transwoman teacher seeks work

The Supreme Court connected Friday (April 10, 2026) intervened to support Jane Kaushik, a transwoman teacher battling for employment and acceptance successful the mainstream contempt aggregate apical tribunal judgments and laws protecting her rights to adjacent opportunities and sex self-determination.

Appearing earlier a Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan, Ms. Kaushik, represented by advocates Shreya Munoth and Amritananda Chakravorty, said her employment prospects had hardly changed contempt the NALSA judgment successful 2014 recognising transgender persons arsenic a ‘third gender’ and consequent enactment of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, and the 2020 Rules.