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NEW DELHI: In a major gender reform, the house ministry is set to permit induction of transgenders as ‘third gender’ into the central armed police forces. The ministry is at the concluding phase of assessments with central paramilitary forces– BSF, CRPF, ITBP, CISF and SSB– on including transgender, together with male and woman, in the rules for the recruitment evaluation for assistant commandants in central forces, starting this year.
The move follows enactment of the Transgender Persons (Security of Rights) Act, 2019, in December in 2015. The Act prohibits discrimination versus a transgender person in matters like education