Madras High Court directs T.N. Nursing Council to change a member’s gender from ‘transgender’ to ‘male’ in records
The Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council to update a registrant's gender from 'transgender' to 'male' in all official records. The court emphasized that the change must be absolute to prevent any future stigma during the registrant's professional migration to Karnataka.
Why it matters
This ruling reinforces the legal right to privacy and the protection of gender identity for individuals who have undergone gender affirmation surgery.
The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council (TNNMC) to change the gender of one of its registrants from ‘transgender’ to ‘male’ in its records and mention only the latter in all the communications to the nursing council in Karnataka where the registrant has decided to migrate.
Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy ordered that the TNNMC should first effect the correction in its records digitally and physically, wherever it was necessary, by striking out the words ‘transgender,’ ‘transgender male,’ or such other descriptions and record the registrant’s gender as just ‘male.’
Thereafter, it must be ensured that the struck off portion or the correction was not conveyed to any other authority including the Karnataka State Nursing Council (KSNC) in Bengaluru so that no stigma gets attached to the registrant in view of his previous gender identification.
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