Observing that the Centre and the States had displayed a “grossly apathetic attitude” towards integrating transgender persons into the mainstream, the Supreme Court on Friday (October 17, 2025) constituted a committee headed by former Delhi High Court judge Justice Asha Menon to formulate a national equal opportunity policy for transgender individuals.
A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan issued the directions while hearing a petition filed by Jane Kaushik, a transwoman teacher who alleged that she was forced to resign from a school in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, in December 2022, and subsequently denied employment by another school in Gujarat in July 2023, both owing to her gender identity.
‘Lack of implementation’
While granting her compensation, the Bench noted that despite the court’s landmark NALSA judgment in 2014, which recognised transgender persons as a “socially and educationally backward class” entitled to reservations in education and public employment, and the enactment of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, there had been a “complete lack of implementation of measures” to prevent discrimination i
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