Legal Rights of Transgender
Provisions of IPC for Transgender:-
Section 8 and 10 of the IPC contain the definition of Gender and Man & Woman, respectively.
Section 8:-The pronoun "he" and its derivatives are used of any person, whether male or female.
Section 10:- The word "man" denotes a male human being of any age; the word "woman" denotes a female human being of any age[1].
The wordings of sections 8 and 10 clarifies the picture that, the "he" pronoun applies only to the male or female, and nothing specifically mentions relating to the transgender in respect of Section 8; whereas in Section 10, the words ‘Men’ and 'Women' means the only male and female human being respectively. It is the most significant section as concerned with the recognition of transgenders, as the recognition of t...